Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
More William James Quotes
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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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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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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