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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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The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the…
— Venerable Bede
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In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
— William James
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The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary…
— Thomas Berry
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The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
— Brian Swimme
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
— Gillian Flynn
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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of…
— Max Planck
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Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this:…
— Alan Watts
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you understand…
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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