Inspirational Quotes
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“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.
Quote by -William James
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
Quote by -William James
“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.”
Quote by -William James
“If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.”
Quote by -William James
“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”
Quote by -William James
“Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.”
Quote by -William James
“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”
Quote by -William James
“Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.”
Quote by -William James
“A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.”
Quote by -William James
“What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.”
Quote by -William James
“As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!”
Quote by -William James
“Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or 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.”
Quote by -William James
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second”
Quote by -William James
“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams