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Most Quotes by William James
- The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes…
- Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
- The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and…
- Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
- Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
- Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson…
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
- The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
- I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you…
- The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes…
- 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,…
- The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance…
- 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…
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
- Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most…
- Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
- Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
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