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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 ...
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 ...
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action activity appear association attention become body brain called cause centres certain chapter comes conceived conception connection consciousness continuous course direct discrimination distinct effect elements entirely example excited exist experience fact feeling felt function give given hand hear ideas identity immediately impression individual interest kind knowledge known less look matter means memory mental mind motor movements nature never object observations occur once organs original particular pass past paths perceive perception person position possible practical present principle psychology question reason relations remains remember result seems sensations sense sensibility separate similar simple single sort soul sound stand stimulus stream succession suppose theory things thought tion true turn whilst whole
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Página 347 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Página 347 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Página 123 - 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. 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 workingday, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
Página 480 - And hence, perhaps, may be given som* reason of that common observation, — that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason.
Página 545 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin: — 'Why, that I cannot tell,' said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.
Página 348 - The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different, whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind ; nor have we the most distant notion of the...
Página 290 - ... and acted as if we were non-existing things, a kind of rage and impotent despair would ere long well up in us, from which the gWellest bodily tortures would be a relief ; for these would make us feel that, however bad might be our plight, we had not sunk to such a depth as to be unworthy of attention at all.
Página 123 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Página 235 - Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as ' chain' or ' train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A ' river' or a ' stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.
Página 121 - No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. And this is an obvious consequence of the principles we have laid down. A "character...
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| Título | The Principles of Psychology, Volumen1 American science series American science series: Advanced course Library of American civilization The Principles of Psychology, William James |
| Autor | William James |
| Editor | H. Holt, 1890 |
| Largo | 1393 páginas |
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