In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognise him.

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in o…

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.