A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESKeep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
More William James Quotes
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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