We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, Psychology - الصفحة 150بواسطة William James - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 478عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Frederick J. Ruf - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way." He follows with platitudinous sayings. "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar." He reminds readers of the omniscient eye that follows their actions: "a kind Heaven may not count [every... | |
 | John Kekes - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...Moral Responsibility (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986). 3 "We are spinning our fates, good and evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. . . . [We] may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among . . . [our] nerve cells... | |
 | Albert Haberstro - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 114
...realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more attention here to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are...to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue, or vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself... | |
 | L.S. Vygotsky - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...expresses a profound truth: Could the young but realizc how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its neverso-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Joseph Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every... | |
 | Julia Grant - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...compilation of habits: "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."19 If human personality was, in large part, a bundle of socialized patterns, then the key to... | |
 | Jaak Panksepp - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...Chapters 5, 6, and 8) has already confirmed what William James surmised a long time ago when he wrote: "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. . . . The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction... | |
 | William James - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 178
...characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct...never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or ol vice leaves its neverso-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself... | |
 | Maxine Hancock - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...development of good character. "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," said philosopher and psychologist William James.2 Since habits and attitudes are most easily shaped... | |
 | George S. Howard - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 198
...by the meeting. This image recalls William James's insight, We are spinning our own fates, good and evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. (James 1890, 130-31) We are... | |
 | Thomas Augst - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...century when he wrote: "Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct...plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good and evil, and never to be undone." 90 No trait was more celebrated in the antebellum literature of... | |
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