Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESWe must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
More William James Quotes
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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