"There is only one thing a philosopher can……" — William James
"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers."
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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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More Contradict Quotes
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one of 156 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
— Francis Bacon
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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a…
— David Chalmers
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
— Jonathan Swift
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
— Lucretius
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously…
— George Orwell
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or…
— Frederic Bastiat
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A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free…
— Carl Sagan
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
— Antonio Machado
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human…
— Thomas Jefferson
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