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Personal Quotes by William James
- The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes…
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- 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 myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
- The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to…
- To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.…
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- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
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