William James Quotes About Freedom

Quotes about: Freedom

• Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

  William James

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

• Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

  William James

  Freedom, Age, Understood

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, Simon and Schuster

• Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

  William James

  Freedom, Real, Names

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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