"When two minds of a high order, interested……" — William James
"When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast..."
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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 Allusion Quotes
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
— Clifton Fadiman
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional…
— Unknown Author
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The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety…
— Harryette Mullen
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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
— Umberto Eco
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant…
— Jack Vance
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One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature…
— Merrill C. Tenney
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it…
— Amy Waldman
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The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But…
— Jessica Helfand
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