Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
More William James Quotes
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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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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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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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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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