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Real Quotes by William James
- Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects…
- There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In…
- Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
- We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such…
- Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses,…
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which…
- To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
- If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a…
- The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because…
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This…
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which…
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- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become… — J. J. Abrams
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell