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World Quotes by William James
- Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
- So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young…
- The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of…
- Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
- Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
- 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…
- 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…
- The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
- It is your friends who make your world.
- The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as…
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which…
- The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we…
- 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…
- The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
More World Quotes
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Being a honest n nice person is most difficult thing in this world. As nobody likes the company of a person that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Only two Persons In The World Can Tell The Truth About you , . 1) A Dear one Who Is Angry On… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray