Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
More William James Quotes
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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