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Own Quotes by William James
- Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects…
- An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
- The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes…
- Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
- The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,…
- . . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct.
- Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness…
- The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
- Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
- Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
- Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own…
- The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what…
- Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
- Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling…
- What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is…
- Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength…
- It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there…
- The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume…
- We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever…
- Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed,…
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