A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
More William James Quotes
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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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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