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William James Quotes
«Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
centre, dwells, humanism, hypotheses, hypothesis, in point of fact, perspective, philosophic, shifting, theorem, theorems
«Religion is nothing if it be not the vital act by which the entire mind seeks to save itself by clinging to the principle from which it draws its life. This act is prayer, by which term I understand no vain exercise of words, no mere repetition of certain sacred formula, but the very movement itself of the soul, putting itself in a personal relation of contact with the mysterious power of which it feels the presence -- it may be even before it has a name by which to call it.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
clinging, drawing power, draws, formula, personal relation, Personal relations, presence of mind, repetition, vital principle
«Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
co, cos, forest, islands, mingle, mingling, roots, the darkness, underground
«The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
bitch, exclusive, goddess
«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 we catch real fact in the making»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Individuality
| Keywords:
blinder, blinders, individuality, Real Character, recess, strata, stratum
«The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
furthered, positively, richly, the University, thinker
«We can see that the mind is at every stage a theatre of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the comparison of these with each other, the selection of some, and the suppression of others, of the rest, by the reinforcing and inhibiting agency of attention . The highest and most celebrated mental products are filtered from the data chosen by the faculty below that - which mass was in turn sifted from a still larger amount of simpler material, and so on.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
agency, and so on, celebrated, comparison, data, faculty, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibits, in turn, products, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, sift, sifted, sifting, simpler, simultaneous, suppression, suppressions, theatre, The Faculty
«All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Cheating,
Health,
Pleasure,
Youth
| Keywords:
cheat, goods, vanish