"The gist of the matter is this: Every……" — William James
"The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them."
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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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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its…
— Seneca the Younger
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The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the…
— Bernard Lazare
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No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
— Arthur Schnitzler
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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
— Ovid
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his…
— Alexander Pope
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
— Seneca the Younger
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A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
— Roger Scruton
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of…
— Havelock Ellis
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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve…
— Winston Churchill
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world…
— Mariella Frostrup
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