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

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.

Life is the greatest fortune.

No man returns from Satan’s fire read to dance a reel.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are in love, there is no room for fear.