"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally,……" — William James
"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being."
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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's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's…
— Paul Auster
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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a…
— David Bailey
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;…
— Annie Besant
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical…
— Annie Besant
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the…
— Samuel Butler
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When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with…
— John Cena
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we…
— Pamela Anderson
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung…
— Pamela Anderson
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You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
— Jennifer Aniston
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