Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
More William James Quotes
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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