Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1900 - 301 páginas |
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... emotional conditions , together with determinations of the will , in every variety of permutation and combination . In most of our concrete states of consciousness all these different classes of ingredients are found simultaneously ...
... emotional conditions , together with determinations of the will , in every variety of permutation and combination . In most of our concrete states of consciousness all these different classes of ingredients are found simultaneously ...
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... emotion or sensation . In most of our fields of consciousness there is a core of sensation that is very pronounced . You , for example , now , although you are also thinking and feeling , are getting through your eyes sensa- tions of my ...
... emotion or sensation . In most of our fields of consciousness there is a core of sensation that is very pronounced . You , for example , now , although you are also thinking and feeling , are getting through your eyes sensa- tions of my ...
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... emotion , of perplexity , of sensation , of abstract thought , of volition , and the like . Vague and hazy as such an account of our stream of consciousness may be , it is at least se- cure from positive error and free from admixture of ...
... emotion , of perplexity , of sensation , of abstract thought , of volition , and the like . Vague and hazy as such an account of our stream of consciousness may be , it is at least se- cure from positive error and free from admixture of ...
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... emotions and passions and withdrawal from the strife of human affairs would be not only pardonable , but praiseworthy ; and all that makes for quiet and contemplation should be regarded as conducive to the highest human perfection . In ...
... emotions and passions and withdrawal from the strife of human affairs would be not only pardonable , but praiseworthy ; and all that makes for quiet and contemplation should be regarded as conducive to the highest human perfection . In ...
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... emotional determinations ; and I mean them in the future as well as in the immediate present . As I talk here , and you listen , it might seem as if no action followed . You might call it a purely theoretic process , with no practical ...
... emotional determinations ; and I mean them in the future as well as in the immediate present . As I talk here , and you listen , it might seem as if no action followed . You might call it a purely theoretic process , with no practical ...
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abstract acquired action apperceiving apperception asso association association of ideas become behavior blindness brain character child child-study conceptions concrete conduct connection effort emotional example excited experience eyes fact faculty feel field of consciousness habits Harvard Corporation hour human ideal imitation impression impulse inhibition inner instinct keep kind labor laws learned lectures lives margin matter meaning memory mental methods mind MIND-WANDERING moral mucilage natively interesting nature ness never objects one's passion pedagogics Phillips Brooks philosophy possible practical Principles of Psychology psychology pupils reaction RICHARD JEFFERIES rience schoolroom sensation sense significance sort STATEN ISLAND stream of consciousness talk teacher tendencies things thought tical tion Tolstoï truth uncon verbal voluntary attention whole WILLIAM JAMES wish words York YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Página 45 - The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Página 223 - I had beheld — in front, The sea lay laughing at a distance; near, The solid mountains shone, bright as the clouds, Grain-tinctured, drenched in empyrean light; And in the meadows and the lower grounds Was all the sweetness of a common dawn — Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds, And labourers going forth to till the fields.
Página 222 - To every natural form, rock, fruit or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the high-way, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning.
Página 56 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 45 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. 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 228 - The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses, The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels, The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset, The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening...
Página 235 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 50 - If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use.
Página 215 - It is said that a poet has died young in the breast of the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.
Página 56 - The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, '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 fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.