… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
More William James Quotes
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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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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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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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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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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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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