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Him Quotes by William James
- Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
- From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with…
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- 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…
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE…
- 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…
- Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the…
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- 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…
- Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
- Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
- So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like…
- A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
- Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees…
- We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life.…
- A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
- To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.…
- 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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- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
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- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho
- Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that… — Cassandra Clare
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle