Let us not make random conjectures about the greatest matters.

One who fails to observe mental and physical phenomena every time they arise cannot see them as merely mental and physical phenomena. Furthermore, one does not realize their causality, impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, notself, or their immediate disappearance upon arising and their continuous disappearance thereafter. Therefore, one mistakenly identifies these mental and physical phenomena with a personal entity, a person who is either born without any cause or created by a creator. One mistakes them for someone or something permanent and pleasant, everlasting, and unchanging.

Well, then, let’s not just trust the likelihood based on painting.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

we ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas.

"Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on "general principles.

But dividing the mind into “biological” and “psychological” is as fallacious as classifying light as a particle or a wave. The natural world makes no promise to align itself with preconceptions that humans find parsimonious or convenient.

Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

Behaviorism... in the form of ... not only neglected the nature of mental entities as an object of inquiry, but denied their existence...

It is not very logical to look over the attributes you possess and then declare that they are the most important attributes in the universe.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

Unlike physics, where previously unknown entities and mechanisms... are routinely postulated... and... evidence is sought in favor or against these... psychology shuns [this methodology]... Thus... cognitive psychology shows reluctance... to building unified theories of mental processes. ...Piaget's work ...might be one of the notable exceptions ...