It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
William JamesThe faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
William JamesEvery way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
William JamesWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William James