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Which Quotes by William James
- To spend life for something which outlasts it.
- As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
- '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.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
- Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
- The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
- The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually…
- There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad,…
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This…
- Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
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