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Feelings 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 philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what…
- Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what…
- When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain…
- 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…
- Individuality is founded in feeling
- Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
- Action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action... we can directly regulate the feeling.
- Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future…
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which…
- If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with…
- If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
- One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental…
- Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
- What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is…
- Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of…
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- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt
- When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have… — Lauren Bacall
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs