But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMESPure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
More William James Quotes
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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