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.
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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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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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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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