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William James Quotes
«In every concrete individual, there is a uniqueness that defies formulation. We can feel the touch of it and recognize its taste, so to speak, relishing or disliking, as the case may be, but we can give no ultimate account of it, and we have in the end simply to admire the Creator.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
concrete, defies, disliking, formulation, relishing, so to speak, The Touch, uniqueness
«There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
concrete, contemptible, dreamer, manly, nerveless, sensibility, sentimentalist, sentimentalists, spends, welter, weltering
«We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
deem, deeming, deems, despise, elects, grown, join, lacking, literally, pant, scramble, scrambled, scrambles, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, spiritless, The General
«Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.»
«Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Equality,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
equals, plus, pretensions
«We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
act as, cold-blooded, connection, infallibly, in cold blood, in question
«The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
biography, continuity, Go Between, jolt, jolted, marries, maximum, minimum, revolutions, smoother, time and space, transitions, untouched