Classifying Quote by William James

“Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.”

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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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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 this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as…

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In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

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“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it…

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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

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Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or…

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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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It is your friends who make your world.

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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,…

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“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made…

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To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex…

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Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the record I don't look at the music by classifying it. People have a problem classifying me as pop, or rock, or folk, or alt. The beauty for me is that a thirteen year old girl can…

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I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in…

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When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

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Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

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The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are…

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Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity…

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Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

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Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It views race…

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A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black,…

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It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all…

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“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with…

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