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- 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…
- 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…
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- 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,…
- The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what…
- From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every…
- Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word…
- Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing…
- The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
- The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes…
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
- When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain…
- What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the…
- The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its…
- Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future…
- Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our…
- From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe)…
- As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it…
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