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«Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Habit
| Keywords:
bounds, flywheel, ordinance, the uprising, uprising, uprisings
«Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.»
«To spend life for something which outlasts it.»
«Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
correspond, Hugo, loosely, quoted, suggestive, suggestive of
«There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
denominate, denominated, grin, snicker
«We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.»
«We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
burst, harming, lineal, Pacific, sinister, slaughter, smoldering, traits, unharmed
«Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
adulation, favorites, lacks, largeness, partialities, partiality
«Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.»
«There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.»
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