In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMESThat which is most personal, is most interesting.
More William James Quotes
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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