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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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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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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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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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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is…
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;…
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Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason…
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Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
— John Mason Brown
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It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe, without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to…
— George Washington
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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly…
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Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a…
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is…
— Aristotle
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Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
— William James
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Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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