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Up Quotes by William James
- If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it…
- How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
- Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what…
- To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
- Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
- Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each…
- The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.
- Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
- Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
- Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
- I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by…
- Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
- The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already…
- If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
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