Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
More William James Quotes
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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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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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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