An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESGive your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
More William James Quotes
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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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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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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History is a bath of blood.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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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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