We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMESReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
More William James Quotes
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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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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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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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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