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Off Quotes by William James
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
- Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness…
- When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off…
- Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins
- It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off…
- Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered…
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
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