Tag: William James
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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
William James
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William James
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
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