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.
WILLIAM JAMESMan lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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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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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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