"We are doomed to cling to a life……" — William James
"We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable."
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William James
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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 Cling Quotes
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one of 509 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
— James A. Baldwin
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Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
— Dirk Benedict
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going…
— Sonny Bono
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
— Johannes Brahms
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And…
— Gabriel Byrne
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One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of…
— Diablo Cody
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always…
— Seneca the Younger
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and…
— Emile Durkheim
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Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
— Augustus Toplady
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and…
— William Osler
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence;…
— Zhuangzi
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In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
— Elias Canetti
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