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Letter "W" » William James Quotes
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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apology, blot, blunders, connected, damning, emphasis, exacted, expiation, formal, humiliations, inadequacies, inadequacy, incidental, incidental to, memorials, poisonous, pound, soaked, stamps, strew, subtlest, vocation
«Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . . . This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
enthusiastically, last word, naturalistic, positivistic, purely, scheme, The Last Word
«I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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bolt, bolted, cue, cues, epigram, introduction, writ
«A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
cooling, cool down, core, descent, excitability, in full view, irritable, pain threshold, The Core, threshold, usual, worm
«The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
impulse, stagnate, stagnated, stagnates, sympathy, with sympathy
«For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.»
«A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those . . . truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.»
«When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
artistic, bank account, doomed, hardship, irreligious, manual, Our House, protest, put off, quake, quaked, quakes, quaking, The So, ugliness, unmanly
«One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Enemies
| Keywords:
Communion, demon, hearty, The Mental, uncharitable
«The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess Success.»
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