Human Traits and Their Social SignificanceArbor Press, Incorporated, 1919 |
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... ideal of efficiency is the ideal of having the effective thing habitually done with as little effort and difficulty as possible . This in the case of human beings is , as James points out , attained when good habits are early acquired ...
... ideal of efficiency is the ideal of having the effective thing habitually done with as little effort and difficulty as possible . This in the case of human beings is , as James points out , attained when good habits are early acquired ...
الصفحة 59
... Ideal activity , biologically , would be one where every impulse was just sufficiently frequently called upon to make response easy , fluent and satisfactory . The reason ' work ' has traditionally come to be regarded as unpleasant and ...
... Ideal activity , biologically , would be one where every impulse was just sufficiently frequently called upon to make response easy , fluent and satisfactory . The reason ' work ' has traditionally come to be regarded as unpleasant and ...
الصفحة 60
... in this inconsequential trifling with ideal fancy and unsubstantial hope.3 See Helen Marot : Creative Impulse in Industry . Dewey : How We Think , p . 2 . This play of the imagination is most uncontrolled and spontaneous 60 HUMAN TRAITS.
... in this inconsequential trifling with ideal fancy and unsubstantial hope.3 See Helen Marot : Creative Impulse in Industry . Dewey : How We Think , p . 2 . This play of the imagination is most uncontrolled and spontaneous 60 HUMAN TRAITS.
الصفحة 70
... ideal group now or in posterity to share it with us . The painfulness of being alone in a belief is well illustrated in De Maupassant's story called ' The Piece of String ' . A poor peasant , accused of stealing a purse , protests that ...
... ideal group now or in posterity to share it with us . The painfulness of being alone in a belief is well illustrated in De Maupassant's story called ' The Piece of String ' . A poor peasant , accused of stealing a purse , protests that ...
الصفحة 92
... ideal which they cher- ished , and who needed no other approval than their con- sciences , their better selves , or their god . Socrates drinking the fatal hemlock , Christ upon the cross , the Christian saints , Joan of Arc , the ...
... ideal which they cher- ished , and who needed no other approval than their con- sciences , their better selves , or their god . Socrates drinking the fatal hemlock , Christ upon the cross , the Christian saints , Joan of Arc , the ...
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acquired action activity already animals appear associated attain beauty become belief called causes certain civilization common complete consequences continually customs depends desire determined developed divine effective emotional environment example experience expression fact fear feeling fixed follow give given habits hand happiness human ideal ideas imagination immediate important impulses individual industrial instance instinct interests kind language learned less live man's matter means mental merely methods mind moral nature noted objects observation once one's opinion original past performed physical play pointed possession possible practical precisely present primitive problem produce reason reflection regarded relations religion religious response satisfaction scientific seems sense significant situation social society specific standards suggestion things thinking thought tion traits types universe various whole
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الصفحة 163 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments...
الصفحة 10 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
الصفحة 10 - ... the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.
الصفحة 29 - And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
الصفحة 80 - A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?
الصفحة 49 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
الصفحة 11 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
الصفحة 13 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
الصفحة 14 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
الصفحة 33 - 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. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.