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Best May Quotes by William James
- No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken…
- The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
- Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it…
- Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
- Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
- If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a…
- We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling…
- 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…
- So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or…
- Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength…
- Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or…
- Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
- Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they.…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong