Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
More William James Quotes
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Truth happens to an idea
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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