No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMESA man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
More William James Quotes
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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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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