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.
WILLIAM JAMESMen’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.
More William James Quotes
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The 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.
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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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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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