The Years From About Eight To Twelve

Every Theory Of Love, From Plato Down Teaches That Each Individual Loves In The Other Sex What He Lacks In Himself.

Civilization Is So Hard On The Body That Some Have Called It A Disease, Despite The Arts That Keep Puny Bodies Alive To A Greater Average Age, And Our Greater Protection From Contagious And Germ Diseases.

Man Is Largely A Creature Of Habit, And Many Of His Activities Are More Or Less Automatic Reflexes From The Stimuli Of His Environment.

This Splendid Subject [mathematics], Queen Of All Exact Sciences, And The Ideal And Norm Of All Careful Thinking.

All Possible Truth Is Practical. To Ask Whether Our Conception Of Chair Or Table Corresponds To The Real Chair Or Table Apart From The Uses To Which They May Be Put, Is As Utterly Meaningless And Vain As To Inquire Whether A Musical Tone Is Red Or Yellow. No Other Conceivable Relation Than This Between Ideas And Things Can Exist. The Unknowable Is What I Cannot React Upon. The Active Part Of Our Nature Is Not Only An Essential Part Of Cognition Itself, But It Always Has A Voice In Determining What Shall Be Believed And What Rejected.