"Smitten as we are with the vision of……" — William James
"Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness."
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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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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is…
— J. William Fulbright
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It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching…
— Unknown Author
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
— Ian Peebles
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in…
— Lord Byron
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President…
— George Will
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I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it…
— Greg LeMond
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The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters…
— Dave Winfield
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If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the…
— Robert Montgomery
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Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women…
— Larry L. King
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