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“Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.”

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William James

William James, born on January 11, 1842, and died on August 26, 1910, was an influential American philosopher, psychologist, and writer. He is considered one of the founders of functionalism in psychology and has had a profound impact on the fields of psychology, philosophy, and religion. more

“Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.”

Way Found Emotion Known Emotional Guilt Violent Occasions Jealousy Remorse Explosives Love Jealousy

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.”

Health Exercise Substitutes Temperance

Author:Joseph Addison

“Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.”

Way Want Work Pleasure Mankind Originals Trade Profession Violent Luxury Former Latter Avarice Degenerates

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.”

World May Persons Greater Mankind Morality Beneficial Qualified Greater Good

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.”

Mind Kind Soul Lasts Causes Laughter Faculty Dissolution

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.”

Men Real Fine Honor Draws Notion Imaginary Mischief

Book:Preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An essay on Virgil's Georgics. Cato. The drummer, or, The haunted house. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals

Source: Preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An essay on Virgil's Georgics. Cato. The drummer, or, The haunted house. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals

“'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.”

Giving Humans May Able Jobs Values Enjoy Loses Human Beings Advice Willing Available Good Advice Larry Bummed Out

Author:Tom Hanks

“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works

“We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

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