"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history……" — William James
"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."
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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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The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole…
— Unknown Author
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the…
— Gaylord Nelson
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I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want…
— Luis Gutierrez
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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian…
— Charles Hodge
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Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a…
— Barbara Boxer
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Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You…
— Oprah Winfrey
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This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis…
— Michio Kaku
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
— Thomas Hobbes
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is…
— Charles Lyell
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their…
— Adam Sedgwick
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