The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
More William James Quotes
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The strenuous life tastes better
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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