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William James has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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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…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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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,…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…
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Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as…
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A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out…
— William Christopher Handy
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Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With…
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I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.
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My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.
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Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of…
— John Muir
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The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Entrance and exit wounds aresilvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood.…
— Robert Graves
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