Sometimes I look [ on trolls on Twitter], but even one ignorant comment can make me go, "Oh god. "
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.
Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.