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Materials Quotes by William James
- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of…
- All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less…
- 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,…
- When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off…
- Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
- If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
- 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
- The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence…
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