The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

The action you will take today, will define tomorrow.

The only thing I'm afraid of losing... is you.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.

We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.