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.

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.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

Pray for the prosperity of your soul.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

I like to practice being still and I feel like that promotes a lot of positivity.

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

We will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ.

If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

You see in the photograph what you are.