 | 1904 - 1108 pages
...when childlike play ceases. In his remarkable chapter, "On a Certain Human Blindness," Mr. James says: "Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant." Surely this was also the idea of the old German child student who had such a deep appreciation of a... | |
 | William James - 1899 - 328 pages
...symbol redolent with moral memories and sang a very paean of duty, struggle, and success. I had been as blind to the peculiar ideality of their conditions...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions,... | |
 | William James - 1900 - 106 pages
...symbol redolent with moral memories and sang a very paean of duty, struggle, and success. I had been as blind to the peculiar ideality of their conditions...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions,... | |
 | William James - 1900 - 324 pages
...symbol redolent with moral memories and sang a very paean of duty, struggle, and success. I had been as blind to the peculiar ideality of their conditions...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions,... | |
 | William James - 1900 - 330 pages
...symbol redolent with moral memories and sang a very paean of duty, struggle, and success. I had been as blind to the peculiar ideality of their conditions as they certainly would also hare been to the ideality of mine, had they had a peep at my strange indoor academic ways of life at... | |
 | William James - 1902 - 326 pages
...redolent with moral memories and sang a very paean of duty, struggle, and success. I had been as bund to the peculiar ideality of their conditions as they...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions,... | |
 | 1899 - 528 pages
...weighing down upon us, only transiently riven here aud there by fitful revelations of truth." And again " Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness to him who lives it, there the li.'e becomes genuinely significant" — these and a hundred other excerpts that might be made are... | |
 | William James - 1916 - 328 pages
...symbol redolent with moral memories and sang a very paean of duty, struggle, and success. I had been as blind to the peculiar ideality of their conditions...Cambridge. / Wherever a process of life communicates an I eagerness to him who lives it, there the life Vbecomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness... | |
 | Lawrence Fraser Abbott - 1919 - 414 pages
...he did it with zest and eagerness. The words of William James may well be applied to such a life : Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the imagination,... | |
 | Ordway Tead, Henry Clayton Metcalf - 1920 - 556 pages
...terms of group conformity and recognition, of emulation, and curiosity. Wherever, said William James, a process of life communicates an eagerness to him...it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Important elements in a condition of interest are therefore self-choice of the activity, pleasure in... | |
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Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness to him who lives it, there the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions, sometimes with the imagination,... 
