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... fear , 385. Gene . sis of the emotional reactions , 386 . INSTINCT CHAPTER XXV . • Its definition , 391. Every instinct is an impulse , 392. In- stincts are not always blind or invariable , 395. Two principles of non - uniformity , 398 ...
... fear , 385. Gene . sis of the emotional reactions , 386 . INSTINCT CHAPTER XXV . • Its definition , 391. Every instinct is an impulse , 392. In- stincts are not always blind or invariable , 395. Two principles of non - uniformity , 398 ...
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... fear ; poisonous things with distaste ; indispensa- ble things with appetite . Mind and world in short have been evolved together , and in consequence are something of a mutual fit . The special interactions between the outer order and ...
... fear ; poisonous things with distaste ; indispensa- ble things with appetite . Mind and world in short have been evolved together , and in consequence are something of a mutual fit . The special interactions between the outer order and ...
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... fear , which saves the insect , crustacean , or other creature from being noticed at all by his enemy . It is paralleled in the human race by 6 * Vierteljahrsch . für wiss . Philos . , II . 377 . the breath - holding stillness of the ...
... fear , which saves the insect , crustacean , or other creature from being noticed at all by his enemy . It is paralleled in the human race by 6 * Vierteljahrsch . für wiss . Philos . , II . 377 . the breath - holding stillness of the ...
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William James. suffer a fly to crawl over his nose unsnapped at . Fear , too , seems to have deserted him . In a word . he is an extremely complex machine whose actions , so far as they go , tend to self - preservation ; but still a ...
William James. suffer a fly to crawl over his nose unsnapped at . Fear , too , seems to have deserted him . In a word . he is an extremely complex machine whose actions , so far as they go , tend to self - preservation ; but still a ...
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... fears man as little as cat or bird of prey . " General Notion of Hemispheres . - All these facts lead us , when we try to formulate them broadly , to some such con- ception as this : The lower centres act from present sensa- tional ...
... fears man as little as cat or bird of prey . " General Notion of Hemispheres . - All these facts lead us , when we try to formulate them broadly , to some such con- ception as this : The lower centres act from present sensa- tional ...
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action activity animal aphasia appear aroused association attention awaken basilar membrane become bodily body brain called centres cerebellum cerebral chapter character ciliary muscle cochlea color condition consciousness corpora quadrigemina corpus callosum currents discharge discrimination effect effort emotion excited exist experience fact fear feeling felt fibres fornix give habit hand hear hemispheres idea imagination immediately impression impulse instinct intellectual interest matter means medulla oblongata membrane memory ment mental mind motion motor movement muscles muscular natural nerve neural never object occipital lobes optic organ outer pain pass perceive perception person physiological present psychic psychology reaction reason relations result retina scala tympani sciousness seems semicircular canals sensation sense sensible sensory simple skin sort sound specious present stimulus suppose tactile temporal lobe thalami things third ventricle thought tion visual volition Weber's law whilst whole words
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Seite 148 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Seite 146 - The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Seite 144 - ... and his lonely farm through all the months of snow; it protects us from invasion by the natives of the desert and the frozen zone. It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again. It keeps different social strata from mixing.
Seite 288 - If any man has the faculty of framing in his mind such an idea of a triangle as is here described, it is in vain to pretend to dispute him out of it, nor would I go about it. All I desire is, that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or no.
Seite 177 - But as the individuals who carry the images fall naturally into classes, we may practically say that he has as many different social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares.
Seite 361 - Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike.
Seite 265 - In short, the practically cognized present is no knife-edge, but a saddle-back, with a certain breadth of its own on which we sit perched, and from which we look in two directions into time.
Seite 409 - I must get up, this is ignominious', etc.; but still the warm couch feels too delicious, the cold outside too cruel. And resolution faints away and postpones itself again and again just as it seemed on the verge of bursting the resistance and passing over into the decisive act. Now how do we ever get up under such circumstances? If I may generalize from my own experience, we more often than not get up without any struggle or decision at all. We suddenly find that we have got up. A fortunate lapse...
Seite 147 - ... over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right. The essential precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified it to such a degree as to enable it to cope with the opposition, under any circumstances. This is the theoretically best career of mental progress.
Seite 177 - ... as the merchants say, of self at all. With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure, no humiliation. So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.