When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who can….

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm..

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as muc….

* What we do to others, we do to ourselves..

I don't really take myself very seriously..

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace..

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that..

If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible..

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind..

But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of ….

There are no a priori obstacles to the scientific knowledge of the mind, but the scientific knowledge of the mind is not all the knowledge of the min….

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness..

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind..

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertisin….

I mean, it's hard to talk about death without realizing that's our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death. It's not that I want to be, but it….

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature..

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of….

The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize….

When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted….

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is ….

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?.