Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMESIf merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
More William James Quotes
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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