Abstract Quote by William James

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency…

— William James

“You may treat the past and future as realities, but they are only realities in your memory and imagination. Only the present exists.”

— Shawn Davis

The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good concept are not product of realities. Realities are product of good concept.

— Melchor Lim

There are many ideas that we will never agree on. The left and the right have different ways of approaching governance, based on contrasting…

— Dan Crenshaw

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people…

— Henry Rollins

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, in…

— Carla Azar

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I…

— Carla Azar

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life…

— William James

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

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the…

— Lord Chesterfield

The important thing is that when you get into some stretches of inconsistency that we don't overreact on the one hand and try to…

— Rick Carlisle