Mental Life Quotes

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.