The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMESFor the moment, what we attend to is reality.
More William James Quotes
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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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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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Truth happens to an idea
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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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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