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William James Quotes
«The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.»
«I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of man's pride, if you give them time. The bigger the unit you deal with, the hollower, the more brutal, the more mendacious is the life displayed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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crannies, cranny, done with, like so, The C
«Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it»
«The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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achieving, acquisitions, advancing, neighbors, relearn, relearning, spending
«The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.»
«As a rule we disbelieve all facts and theories for which we have no use»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
disbelieve, disbelieved, disbelieves, theories
«'The true' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving»
«An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
suggestive, suggestive of