Great Throughts Treasury

"Only he can command who has the courage to disobey."

"Will is character in action."

"What we call personality or character is a highly complex product of a long integrative process, a process which may go wrong and may be largely undone at any stage."

"Hypnotism is undoubtedly the most important, the most fruitful and far-reaching method of experimental psychology."

"Take away these instinctive dispositions with their powerful impulses, and the organism would become incapable of activity of any kind; it would lie inert and motionless like a wonderful clockwork whose mainspring had been removed or a steam-engine whose fires had been withdrawn."

"The striving to achieve an end is? the mark of behavior; and behavior is the characteristic of living things."

"Psychologists must cease to be content with the sterile and narrow conception of their science as the science of consciousness, and must boldly assert its claim to be the positive science of mind in all its aspects and modes of functioning, or, as I would prefer to say, the positive science of conduct or behavior."