Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an #‎ education .

What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?

I dont know about happily ever after... but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought.

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

God will do nothing except you pray; and you have to be clear what you want