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• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
• All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.
• Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
• Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
• On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect…
• Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original…
• It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will…
• The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are…
• When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a…
• From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
• The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges…
• The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies…

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