"What excites and interests the looker-on at life,……" — William James
"What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death."
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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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However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and…
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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
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Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And…
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.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the…
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This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what…
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