We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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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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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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