The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
More William James Quotes
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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History is a bath of blood.
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