The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
More William James Quotes
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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