The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMESThe true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
More William James Quotes
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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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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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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Science, 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.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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