The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself ... The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned …

A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among…

If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become ta…

It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves - not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us…

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they d…

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…