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 JAMESFacts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
More William James Quotes
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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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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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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