It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
More William James Quotes
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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