William James on barriers
William James50 quotes“The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.”
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William JamesWilliam James When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
William JamesWilliam James To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
William JamesWilliam James Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
William JamesWilliam James Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
William JamesWilliam James Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
William JamesWilliam James We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
William JamesWilliam James As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
William JamesWilliam James Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William JamesWilliam James We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
William JamesWilliam James If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
William JamesWilliam James The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
William JamesWilliam James Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
William JamesWilliam James Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
William JamesWilliam James With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
William JamesWilliam James Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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