Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
More William James Quotes
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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