The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMESThe true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
More William James Quotes
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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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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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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