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«I now perceive one immense omission in my psychology -- the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.»
«There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.»
«The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.»
«Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902»
«Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.»
«The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That -- with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease.»
«[T]he sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.»
«Algebra is a form of low cunning.»
«There is little of the grand style about these new prism, pendulum and chronograph philosophers. They mean business, not chivalry. . . . the experimental method has quite changed the face of science so far as the latter is a record of mere work done.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
business methods, chronograph, experimental, experimental method, Mean Business, prism
«Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for may be enveloped in a wider order.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
causation, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, reminded, The Order, wider
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