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Best Us Quotes by William James
- The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly…
- The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to…
- Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
- To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
- If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the…
- The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the…
- It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never…
- Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
- Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
- Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
- Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
- 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…
- Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
- Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
- It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there…
- Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I…
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
- 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…
- Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take…
- Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
- Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas
- Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
- Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong