Humans Quote by William James Download Open image “The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Serpent Trails
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The serpent’s objective is clear. He seeks to drive a wedge of doubt into Adam and Eve’s confidence in what God has told them.… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punished with a plague of fiery serpents, so that… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
