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«No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.»
«Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. If you protest, my friend, wait till you arrive there yourself!»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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agony, arrive, founded, goes out, helpless, protest, shambles, spasm, spasms
«My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.»
«To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.»
«It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.»
«Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
appear, attending, chooses, inhabit, inhabits, literally, sort, sort of
«No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him»
«If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.»
«The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.»
«The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, He can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity is needed in the empyrean.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
empyrean, menial, prince, prince of, Prince of Darkness, services, The Prince, The Prince of Darkness, Trials
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