The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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More William James Quotes
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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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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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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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