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.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
More William James Quotes
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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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