Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
More William James Quotes
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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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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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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