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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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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
— Alain de Botton
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Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see…
— James Jeans
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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not…
— Gilles Deleuze
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.
— Ayn Rand
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Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years…
— Stefan Zweig
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Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing…
— Roger Penrose
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The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
— Bryan Magee
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UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.
— Claudia Cardinale
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Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
— Stephen Gillers
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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!
— Oscar Wilde
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