The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMESImpulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
More William James Quotes
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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