That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMESThat which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMESWe with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
WILLIAM JAMESMankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESWe must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMESIn business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMESWith no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
WILLIAM JAMESDemocracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
WILLIAM JAMESThe lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMESTouch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESWisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMESWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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