The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does bo…

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits...A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talki…

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

We probed into the nature of space and time, and of the universal, both with regard to external nature and with regard to mind. But then, we went on to conside…