The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
More William James Quotes
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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