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Our Quotes by William James
- 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
- 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…
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we…
- It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
- The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
- Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
- Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
- The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
- Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by…
- The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually…
- Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our…
- Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as…
- To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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