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

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

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.

He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.

Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance

The world will not get better, only we get and grow better.

It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

My weekends are extremely precious.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.