"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest……" — William James

"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."

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.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of…
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort…

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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who… — Bruce Barton
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It… — Louis D. Brandeis
We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring… — Robert D. Brinsmead
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily… — John Owen
You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus. — Swami Vivekananda
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books… — Swami Vivekananda
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white… — William Faulkner
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on… — Abraham Lincoln
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on… — Sojourner Truth
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the… — Alexander the Great
At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary… — Subhas Chandra Bose

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"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest……" — William James

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