"Lay plans as if we were to be…" — William James
"Lay plans as if we were to be immortal."
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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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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt…
— Joseph Addison
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth,…
— Annie Besant
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Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him,…
— Annie Besant
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course,…
— David Bowie
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that…
— Samuel Butler
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Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to…
— Lord Byron
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
— Herb Caen
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