A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
More William James Quotes
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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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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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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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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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 emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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