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Present 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most…
- Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
- Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest…
- 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…
- All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of…
- Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas
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- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of… — Dalai Lama
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt