William James on Graduation
1842–1910 United States
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The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
The Letters of William James (1920)
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
The Principles of Psychology (1890)
For our ancestors, dreams, hallucinations, revelations, and cock-and-bull stories were inextricably mixed with facts.