Human nature Quotes by William James

8 Human nature quotes by William James

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James’s eight quotes capture his psychological insight in a compact form. The statements blend philosophy and everyday observation, providing a quick yet meaningful look at his take on human behavior.

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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception…

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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed…

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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown…

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“We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to…

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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the…

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The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

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“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered…

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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

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Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or…

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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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It is your friends who make your world.

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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,…

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“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and…

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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes…

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