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- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into…
- An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
- If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain…
- 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,…
- So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young…
- 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,…
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
- When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius…
- 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…
- The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
- Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest…
- We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such…
- To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that…
- One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental…
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