… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMESYou may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
More William James Quotes
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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