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Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: german
Birth: January 24, 1850 - February 26, 1909

Topics

Said Events Mental Passive Subject

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

Value Picture Never See Greatest Us

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Father Mother Food Deep Philosophy

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

Good Music Believe Values Look Band

Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.

Broken Interesting Landscape Look

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

Yourself Self Lawyers Now Say Get

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

Art Learn Hobby New Matter Become

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

War Thought Nationalism Easy Going

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Business Great Create Will More Any

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Children American Television Now Too

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

Sebastian Junger

Life Car War Me Negative You

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Work Art Day Law Literature Enough

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Father Mother Sister World Down Say

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