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Call Quotes by William James
- There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,…
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
- Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with…
- Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing…
- It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may…
- Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
- We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
- What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
- Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by…
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