No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
More William James Quotes
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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