To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMESWisdom is learning what to overlook.
More William James Quotes
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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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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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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