The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

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.

I'm so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

How can a human being be illegal?

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Comedy comes from confusion.

I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.

The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.