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«Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
arrest, arresting, arrests, attend to, baffle, baffles, baffling, experiences, fled, flees, grasp, instant, melted, notice, occurs
«The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
changing, discovery, Discovery of, generation, My Generation
«Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
faculty, Faculty of, in truth, perceiving, The Faculty
«Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
add to, and so on, dip, dipping, dips, dip into, emerge, indefinitely, indifferent, meanwhile, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, Truth The
«Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Reason,
Testing
| Keywords:
dire, direr, direst, draws, nigh, The test, unnerve, unnerved, unnerving, untrained
«Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.»
«Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
awe, forest, gorge, gorged, organic, thrill, twilight
«The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Appreciation
| Keywords:
appreciated, craving, cravings, deepest, Human nature
«First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Theory
| Keywords:
absurd, admitted, adversaries, attacked, claim, insignificant, obvious
«It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
actual, breeder, cases, chosen, corruption, cowardice, elsewhere, energies, freeman, freemen, lose it, portion, terrors, The Fear, Thousands
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