I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.
The brain, to be sure, is indeed the physical embodiment of the mind, the organ through which the mind finds expression and through which it acts in the world.
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.
Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.