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Far Quotes by William James
- A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
- 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…
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
- The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
- 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…
- The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly…
- So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war…
- It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought…
- Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
- All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of…
- ...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore…
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