The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMESBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
More William James Quotes
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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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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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