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Between Quotes by William James
- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
- [T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
- This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one…
- There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
- Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things…
- From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe)…
- Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is…
- We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the…
- There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
- There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
- A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly;…
- Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they.…
- Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
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