As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
More William James Quotes
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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