"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses……" — William James
"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making"
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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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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
— Edgar Guest
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams…
— William Wordsworth
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It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play…
— Ian Rush
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Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the…
— Thomas Brooks
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places…
— William James
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over…
— Victor Hugo
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He'd have to be blinder than a bat. ~Alexander
— Ellen Schreiber
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