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Other Quotes by William James
- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at…
- 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,…
- As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness,…
- 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…
- When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and…
- 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…
- Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the…
- 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.…
- If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
- A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific…
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
- Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with…
- The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
- You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject…
- If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them…
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it…
- Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees…
- There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
- The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
- If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
- Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of…
- Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is…
- Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour