The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMESI myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
More William James Quotes
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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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.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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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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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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