The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
More William James Quotes
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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 great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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