The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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