Quote by William James Download Open image ““The opposition between the men who have and the men who are is immemorial.”” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness...” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.” — Xenophon Copy Share Image
“Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves;” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many women from time immemorial have thought that if only women could rule the world it would be better than it… — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.” — Frank Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“to become a man (or at least an elite man) was to claim the right to speak.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.” — Allan Dare Pearce 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 feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as… — William James Copy Share
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 as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it… — William James Copy Share
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 the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made… — William James Copy Share
