Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESHistory is a bath of blood.
More William James Quotes
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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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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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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