Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

Love can move the Sun and the stars.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.