I like reality. It tastes like bread.
It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena. . . The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.
Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the `elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all `bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes
The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear
I think that's what centers me the most - all my people, all my animals.
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.