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- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of…
- From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with…
- All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less…
- But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst…
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at…
- Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
- As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness,…
- All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
- Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
- We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
- If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances…
- We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel…
- A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will…
- The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
- All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
- Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide