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.
WILLIAM JAMESOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
More William James Quotes
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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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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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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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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