Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
WILLIAM JAMESScience, 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.
More William James Quotes
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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