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Human Quotes by William James
- But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst…
- 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…
- Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
- 'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
- The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the…
- 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…
- As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy…
- 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…
- Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
- The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
- The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
- If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the…
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
- Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
- If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell