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.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth happens to an idea
More William James Quotes
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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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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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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 God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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