Quote by William James Download Open image ““A stream of ideal tendency embedded in the external structure of the world.”” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
“Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which… — Emmanuel Lévinas Copy Share Image
“Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“An intangible substance, make up the world around us. But ironically, must still only foolishly trust, in what they can see or touch.” — Sovereign Voice Copy Share Image
“The mind, unfettered by the constraints of the ego, dances with the cosmos in ecstatic union” — J.R. Damon Copy Share Image
“[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Behind every aspect of the world is another aspect of the world.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
