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 JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
More William James Quotes
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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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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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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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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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