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Such Quotes by William James
- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
- If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain…
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
- Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel…
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely…
- O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In…
- ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such…
- The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to…
- A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such…
- Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and…
- If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the…
- We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such…
- Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our…
- I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.
- If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
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