William James Quotes
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Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
[Change]
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
[Decisions]
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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
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