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Great Quotes by William James
- No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- Events are influenced by our very great desires.
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it…
- 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…
- Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
- A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
- We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should…
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
- The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
- I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that…
- 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;…
- To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
- How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled…
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