The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMESEvery individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
More William James Quotes
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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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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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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