Quote by William James
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. – William James

Other quotes by William James

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. – William James

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Worth
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

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Age
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Pure experience is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. – William James

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Hell
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Hell

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, theres an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives. – Marquis De Sade

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Hell

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. – Thomas Carlyle

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Hell

Hell is paved with good Samaritans. – William M. Holden

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Hell

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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Family

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln

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History

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. – Judge Learned Hand

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Oppression

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes…. TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. – John Mason Brown, January 1955, modification of an earlier statement by Henri Pe

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Television