Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMESWe can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
More William James Quotes
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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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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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Truth happens to an idea
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