Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMESWe hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
More William James Quotes
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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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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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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