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William James Quotes

«Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.»
«With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved»
«If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience»
«The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature»
«Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will»
«The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook»
«It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has been set like plaster, and will never soften again.»
«Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.»
«Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly.»
«Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.»