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William James Quotes
«We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation of material attachments, the unbridled soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly -- the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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athletic, attachments, fling, idealization, idealizations, imagining, in short, irresponsibly, liberation, manlier, trim, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, unbridled
«A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.»
«For life is evil. Two souls are in my breast; I see the better, and in the very act of seeing it I do the worse.»
«Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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crises, emergencies, resources, supposed, vital
«The human individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and he behaves below his optimum. . . . it is only an inveterate habit -- the habit of inferiority to our full self.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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energize, energized, energizes, energizing, inveterate, maximum, optimum
«We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.»
«Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight»