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.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
More William James Quotes
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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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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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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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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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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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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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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