The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
More William James Quotes
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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