A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
More William James Quotes
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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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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Time itself comes in drops.
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