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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…
- Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects…
- An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
- You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock…
- 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…
- Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with…
- In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
- We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still…
- Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with…
- It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may…
- Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
- If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
- If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to…
- The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by…
- There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
- Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each…
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
- You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject…
- The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to…
- We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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