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"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements."
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"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."
"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements."
"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."
"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."
"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
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