 ... probably a relaxing effect upon the character. One becomes filled with emotions which habitually pass without prompting to any deed, and so the inertly sentimental condition is kept up. The remedy would be, never to suffer one's self to have an emotion...  The Educator-journal - Seite 1461902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William James - 1977 - 918 Seiten
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 | Charles Edward Skinner, Ira Morris Gast, Harley Clay Skinner - 1926 - 874 Seiten
...would be, never to suffer oneself to have an emotion at a concert, without expressing it afterward in some active way. Let the expression be the least...thing in the world — speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a horse-car, if nothing more heroic offers — but let it not fail... | |
 | John Dewey - 1985 - 590 Seiten
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 | Richard Poirier - 1987 - 264 Seiten
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 | William James - 1992 - 1212 Seiten
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 | Frank Crane - 1998 - 164 Seiten
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 | Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 Seiten
...would be, never to suffer one's self to have an emotion at a concert, without expressing it afterward in some active way. Let the expression be the least thing in the world— speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a horse-car, if nothing more heroic offers— but let it not fail... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 Seiten
...With some degree of self-mockery, and self-protection, he says at one point that this "action" can be "the least thing in the world, speaking genially to one's grandmother ... if nothing more heroic offers." But we're left again to conclude that he wants simply to avoid... | |
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