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Them Quotes by William James
- There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,…
- 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,…
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and…
- Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word…
- The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
- To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
- If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
- The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by…
- We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
- You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject…
- If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them…
- ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such…
- As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it…
- To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that…
- The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
- 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…
- I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that…
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