There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of... course, on memory).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the research on fatigue And the movements of packers; the gradual exploring of all the... Octaves of radiation; Tomorrow the enlarging of consciousness by diet and breathing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unhappy as the event must be ... we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that on...e false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensati...ons are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight,... Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been wavering in my mind whether I should ever again touch this journal, unless it were to commit it to the flames--for thi...s same mind of mine would fain persuade me that this journal of mine is a very ridiculous, trifling and useless affair ... but I felt at the same time a regret, a loss of something in forbearing to here unburden myself ... and now that I once more have taken courage to begin, I think I already feel twice the content I did while this dear little book was neglected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You must ...allow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dang...ers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »