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Way Quotes by William James
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into…
- 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…
- Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will…
- Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness…
- The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what…
- The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
- Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing…
- 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.…
- I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you…
- 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,…
- Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
- A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such…
- Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
- So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war…
- To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
- There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
- Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually…
- What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is…
- So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or…
- Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
- Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
- The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume…
- Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they.…
- Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
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