In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.
Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
Don’t preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
New habits can be launched.
We are mere bundles of habits.
There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing.
A thing is important if anyone think it important.
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.
In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.