Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
— William James
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
— William James
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
— William James
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
— William James
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
— William James
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William James
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In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
— William James
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
— William James
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
— William James
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
— William James
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
— William James
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
— William James
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
— William James
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
— William James
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
— William James
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
— William James
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
— William James
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
— William James
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
— William James
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
— William James
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
— 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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Time itself comes in drops.
— William James
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
— Immanuel Kant
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
— Immanuel Kant
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