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Mean Quotes by William James
- The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
- The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what…
- Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
- The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
- Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
- We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still…
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue…
- Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with…
- Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
- Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
- From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe)…
- Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
- Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
- 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…
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle