"O my Bergson, you are a magician, and……" — William James
"O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim."
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William James
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484 Quotes by William James
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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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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for…
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Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to…
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left…
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The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were…
— Vinoba Bhave
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney…
— Joe Biden
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And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't…
— Michael Bloomberg
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call,…
— James Buchan
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
— Sitting Bull
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional…
— Vince Cable
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Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich,…
— Herman Cain
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I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they…
— Herman Cain
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