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«Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.»
«We have the right to believe at our own risk any hypothesis that is live enough to tempt our will.»
«If the 'searching of our heart and reins' be the purpose of this human drama, then what is sought seems to be what effort we can make. He who can make none is but a shadow; he who can make much is a hero.»
«A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.»
«This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
climes, individual differences, mystic, oneness, overcoming, The Everlasting
«Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
capacity, lesser, Relationships, seeing
«Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.»
«Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
certitude, doubtless, moonlit, objective, visited
«Life defies our phrases, it is infinitely continuous and subtle and shaded, whilst our verbal terms are discrete, rude and few.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
continuous, defies, discrete, phrases, rude, shaded, verbal
«What we need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
compatible, Moral equivalent, universally
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