William James Quotes

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

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• Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Grow

• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Impossible

• I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

  

  David Mamet
  • Political

• Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I have no time to write songs.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Time

• I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character mature and deal with some things that are, that I think as an audience member, really pull us in.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Character

• We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Interest
  • Special
  • Taxes

• I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Chances
  • Acknowledge
  • Senator

• Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

  

  Epictetus
  • Good
  • Seek
  • External Things

• When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Evil
  • Build
  • Good Men

• There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Women
  • Tea
  • Foundation

• Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom do you admire? What are their special traits that you would make your own It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. If you have a daybook, write down who you're trying to be, so that you can refer to this self-determination. Precisely describe the demeanor you want to adopt so that you may preserve it when you are by yourself or with other people.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Wise
  • Admire

• The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

  

  Nicolas Maduro
  • Stability
  • Ideals
  • Contribute

• Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.

  

  Edmund Smith
  • Victims
  • Priests
  • Altars

• We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

  

  Moliere
  • Fashion
  • Language
  • Changes

• All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

  

  William James
  • Ideals
  • Philosophic
  • Altars