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Often Quotes by William James
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing…
- Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what…
- 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,…
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an…
- Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular…
- There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
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