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Psychology: The Briefer Course

Condensed and reworked from James’s monumental Principles of Psychology, this classic text examines habit; stream of consciousness; self and the sense of personal identity; discrimination and association; the sense of time; memory; perception; imagination; reasoning; emotions, instincts; the will...

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William James
2001
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTo perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,

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FindCenter Quotes ImageGenius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

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