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Lives Quotes by William James
- We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel…
- Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
- 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…
- 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.
- Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.
- Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with…
- Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- Man lives for science as well as bread.
- The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
- Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as…
- There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
- Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
- The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects…
- Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
- If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
- Truth is what works. Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing…
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