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Things Quotes by William James
- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of…
- 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…
- But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst…
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain…
- Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will…
- Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine…
- [Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
- Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the…
- 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.
- In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
- Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
- You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject…
- Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things…
- If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them…
- So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like…
- Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in…
- Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment…
- Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
- 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…
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