Truth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMESGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
More William James Quotes
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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We 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.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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