Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
More William James Quotes
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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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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