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Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost…

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...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only…
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner…
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life…
Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least…
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for…
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or…
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the…
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems…
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.
Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to…
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and…
Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were…

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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and… — Paramahansa Yogananda
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. — Sophocles
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing,… — Che Guevara
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New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population… — Paul Goldberger
Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time. — Jerry Climer
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they… — Wilhelm Wundt

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