"A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one……" — William James
"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 terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description."
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William James
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484 Quotes by William James
William James has 484 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
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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…
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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…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort…
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From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation…
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Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms?…
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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure…
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces…
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand…
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Genius is power, talent is applicability.
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The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels…
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