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William James Quotes about Philosophy

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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

Appreciation, Attitude, Philosophy

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Half

"Unsettling changes" by Mike Small, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

Philosophy, Way, Facts

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

Philosophy, Mind, Quiet

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Sublime

William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

Philosophy, Educational, Book

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.90, Harvard University Press

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

Philosophy, Reflection, Perception

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

Philosophy, Law, Medicine

William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.5, Courier Corporation

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

Educational, Philosophy, Science

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.57, Nuvision Pubns

The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

Art, Philosophy, Educational

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

Memories, Philosophy, Educational

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.96, Nuvision Pubns

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Philosophy, Thinking, Stubborn

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Memories, Philosophy, Educational

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.161, Courier Corporation

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

Inspirational, Educational, Philosophy

"Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.

Philosophy, Educational, Past

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.123, Nuvision Pubns

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

Educational, Philosophy, Feelings

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.20, Nuvision Pubns

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association

Educational, Philosophy, Literature

William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.42, Courier Corporation

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

Philosophy, Educational, Ideas

William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.80, Nuvision Pubns

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Philosopher

"Memories and Studies".

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Certain

William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.2, 谷月社

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.

Philosophy, Character, People

William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

Philosophy, Educational, Ideas

William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.124, Harvard University Press

The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

Philosophy, Educational, Order

"Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

Art, Philosophy, Men

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.135, Booklassic

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

Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

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