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.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
More William James Quotes
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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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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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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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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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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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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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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