William James Quotes
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
[Pessimism]
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognise him.
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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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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.
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Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
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So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.
[War]
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So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.
[War]
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
[Accomplished]
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Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
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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.
[Able]
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
[Art]
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
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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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