The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
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The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
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