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Only Quotes by William James
- If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain…
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field…
- Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
- The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of…
- The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
- We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
- Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
- 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…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- 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…
- Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
- Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with…
- 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 attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
- 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…
- Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
- 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…
- If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to…
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