We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMESLives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
More William James Quotes
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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