7 Quotes by William James about mean

  • Author William James
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    Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

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    Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

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    Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

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    Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

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    To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

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    That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

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