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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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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
— Victor Hugo
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An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other…
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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.
— Charles Olson
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The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the…
— William James
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On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number…
— Hermann Bondi
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That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
— Leonard Nimoy
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Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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Captain John Sheridan: I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it. Delenn: Then I will tell…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now…
— Robin Sloan
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Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body,…
— Deepak Chopra
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