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.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Our 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.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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