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«Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.»
«So I am against all big organizations as such, national ones first and foremost; against all big successes and big results; and in favor of the eternal forces of truth which always work in the individual and immediately unsuccessful way, under-dogs always, till history comes, after they are long dead, and puts them on top.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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first and foremost, foremost, organizations
«The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves have been flown for religious ideals.»
«Time itself comes in drops.»
«Philosophy is only a matter of passionate vision rather than of logic -- logic only finding reasons for the vision afterwards.»
«From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.»
«The most general elements and workings of the mind are all that the teacher absolutely needs to be acquainted with for his purposes.»
«Truth in our ideas means their power to work.»
«Truth is essentially a relation between two things, an idea, on the one hand, and a reality outside of the idea, on the other.»
«Religion is either a dull habit or an acute fever.»
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