The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
More William James Quotes
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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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History is a bath of blood.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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