« All Offered Us Quotes
·
William James's Page
Offered Us Quotes by William James
1 Offered Us quote by William James
More Quotes by William James
William James has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
-
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
-
From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
-
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
-
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
-
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
-
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
-
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
See all 511 quotes by William James »
More Offered Us Quotes
Popular Offered Us quotes from across the collection:
-
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
— Marquis de Sade
-
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
-
If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem…
— C.S. Lewis
-
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with…
— C.S. Lewis
-
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
— C.S. Lewis
-
All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
-
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country…
— Andrew Jackson
-
What freedom and hope is found in Christ! We don’t need to feel beautiful about ourselves to find happiness! In fact, we’re…
— Carolyn Mahaney
See all Offered Us Quotes »
Browse William James Quotes by Category