"Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason……" — William James
"Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift."
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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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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing…
— Jane Austen
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the…
— Robert Benchley
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
— Walter Benjamin
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there…
— Mortimer Adler
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I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
— Russell Brand
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
— Marlon Brando
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Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding…
— Richard Branson
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short…
— Jane Campion
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates…
— William J. Clinton
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
— Susan B. Anthony
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