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.
WILLIAM JAMESOur faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
More William James Quotes
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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The 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.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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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.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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