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.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
More William James Quotes
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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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.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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