Rational living ; some practical inferences from modern psychologyMacmillan, 1905 - 271 páginas |
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... decision a double demand is constantly laid upon us : make deliberation habitual , yet decide promptly when the evidence is once in . Great differences of temperament are to be recognized here ; some children find it almost impossible ...
... decision a double demand is constantly laid upon us : make deliberation habitual , yet decide promptly when the evidence is once in . Great differences of temperament are to be recognized here ; some children find it almost impossible ...
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... decision almost impossible . There are circumstances in life when almost any prompt decision is of far more conse- quence than the best decision reached too late . " The ideal of a good character , " an- other says , " is a combination ...
... decision almost impossible . There are circumstances in life when almost any prompt decision is of far more conse- quence than the best decision reached too late . " The ideal of a good character , " an- other says , " is a combination ...
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... decision , but even more closely with the fundamental paradox of the moral life in self - assertion and self - surrender , considered a little later . In the moral life , too , quietism wars with enthusiasm - the mood of the East with ...
... decision , but even more closely with the fundamental paradox of the moral life in self - assertion and self - surrender , considered a little later . In the moral life , too , quietism wars with enthusiasm - the mood of the East with ...
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... decide which duty is para- mount in a given case . One needs , at the very least , to be sure that his decision is not determined by his own selfish desire . Religion , too , has to steer between a super- 30 RATIONAL LIVING.
... decide which duty is para- mount in a given case . One needs , at the very least , to be sure that his decision is not determined by his own selfish desire . Religion , too , has to steer between a super- 30 RATIONAL LIVING.
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... Decision of Character , says : " If once his judgment is really decided , let him commit himself irretrievably , by doing something which shall oblige him to do more , which shall lay on him the necessity of doing all . ” This is really ...
... Decision of Character , says : " If once his judgment is really decided , let him commit himself irretrievably , by doing something which shall oblige him to do more , which shall lay on him the necessity of doing all . ” This is really ...
Términos y frases comunes
¹ Op abstract action activity æsthetic asceticism attention Augustine Birrell bodily conditions body brain calls central importance character and happiness complexity conception concrete consciousness conviction danger definite ditions duty effect emotion emphasis ethical experience expression facts fatigue feeling Fichte fundamental give habits happiness and influence Hegel HENRY CHURCHILL KING highest Höffding human idea ideal impulse insistence intel intellectual interests living Lotze magical inheritance Manichæans means ment mental Microcosmus mind modern psychology mood moral Münsterberg nature nerve-cells ness normative sciences one's organism ourselves Outlines of Psychology paradox Paulsen personal association personal relations philosophy physical physiological psychology positive possible practical principle problem psychical purpose rational reality reason recognition recognize Reformers warred religious seems self-control sense significance simply sphere spiritual Stanley Hall things thinking thought tion true true living truth unity volitional voluntaristic whole Wundt
Pasajes populares
Página 180 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Página 166 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Página 84 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 165 - And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
Página 82 - For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Página 83 - We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, 'I won't count this time...
Página 166 - If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from myself.
Página 84 - I won't count this time." Well ! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it ; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 247 - And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
Página 21 - There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged, and the tendency to renovate, its ideas. Our education is a ceaseless compromise between the conservative and the progressive factors.