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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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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of…
— William James
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The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
— Edward Abbey
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Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.
— Rudolf Carnap
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what…
— H. L. Mencken
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The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they…
— H. L. Mencken
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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians -…
— Jules Verne
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