Alexander Bain

“Genius is only a superior power of seeing.”

“The power of the will is the power of attending to a thought.”

“The only account of truth which can be given is that it is the agreement of a statement with a fact.”

“The emotions, as a whole, are the most powerful of all the motives to action.”

“A great deal of the evidence on which physical science is founded is substantially of the nature of matter of fact.”

“Neutrality in things good or evil is plain nonsense.”

“The objects of knowledge are twofold: things, and the relations of things.”

“Every act of memory is an act of imagination.”

“The prime necessity of life is to be living.”

“The leading notion of the psychical is the stream of consciousness.”

“The exercise of nerve is a discharge of stored-up force.”

“Action is the true end of life.”