The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMESThe general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
More William James Quotes
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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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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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