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William James Quotes - Page 19

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The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

Attention, Unchanging, Made

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.68, Harvard University Press

Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.

Nature, Science, Flames

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.182, Courier Corporation

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

Technology, Order, Purpose

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.576, Courier Corporation

There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.

Life, Spiritual, Night

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.

Science, Order, Two

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

Race, Vagueness, Free Will

William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

New habits can be launched.

Habit, New Habits

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.65, Nuvision Pubns

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

Giving Up, Blessed, Deception

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Men, Order, Intellectual

William James (1911). “Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy”, p.51, U of Nebraska Press

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

Self, Mind, Peculiar

William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.294, Courier Corporation

What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

Believe, Community, Belief

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Routledge

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

Sorry, Apology, May

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.243, Courier Corporation

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

Vanity, Religion, Would Be

William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.41, Library of America

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

Thinking, Pluralism, Form

William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.146, Harvard University Press

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

Lonely, Admiration, Feds

William James (2012). “Memories and Studies”, p.178, The Floating Press

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

Thinking, Doe, Able

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.134, Routledge

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

Educational, Philosophy, Emotional

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.78, Nuvision Pubns

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Truth, Guides, Sensible

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.

Teacher, Philosophy, Spring

William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

Truth, Reality, Ideas

William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Love, Life, Gratitude

"How About a Little Hope?" by Litsa Dremousis, www.esquire.com. July 30, 2007.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Mean, Men, Absence

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

Ideas, Relation, Being True

William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.29, Courier Corporation

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

Reality, Frustration, Ideas

William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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