Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
WILLIAM JAMESEverything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
More William James Quotes
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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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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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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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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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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