A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMESAt bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
More William James Quotes
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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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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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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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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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