Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
More William James Quotes
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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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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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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