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Reality Quotes by William James
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson…
- Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with…
- When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain…
- It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may…
- 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…
- There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a…
- For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
- Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and…
- 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…
- Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes…
- If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with…
- It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off…
- 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…
More Reality Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov