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William James
William James
American Philosopher
Born: Jan 11, 1842
Died: Aug 26, 1910
Any Life Man Will World You
Related authors: Allan Bloom Deepak Chopra George Herbert Mead John Dewey Judith Butler Lysander Spooner Robert M. Pirsig Robert Nozick
Truth is what works. William James
Truth Truth Is Works
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. William James
You Make Itself Choice
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
People Think Thinking Merely Prejudices Rearranging Many
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. William James
Will Become Young State Would Give More Could Habits Mere Soon How Conduct Walking While Heed Realize Plastic
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. William James
Life Man Thinking Alter Altering His
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James
Today Truth Tomorrow Live Call Ready Falsehood Get
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James
Human Being Miserable Nothing Indecision More Habitual Than Human Being Whom
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. William James
Good Experience Feeling Valid Would Would-Be Could Merely Feeling Good Drunkenness Supremely Human Decide Human Experience
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. William James
Nothing Think Clearly Obstinate Unusually Metaphysics Effort Means
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. William James
Enemy Rest Our Greatest Truths Any May
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. William James
Good Character Better Opportunity Matter Every Possess Unaffected Entirely Remain Taken Advantage How Concrete Maxims May Sentiments Act Full Reservoir
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. William James
Heart World Our Solemn Nervousness Seems Spite Excessive Lightness Surely Healthier Caution Errors Than Behalf Where Them Certain Things
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. William James
Great Our Resources Crises Vital Emergencies Had Supposed Greater How How Much Than Us Much Show
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. William James
Other Philosopher Philosophers One Thing Only Only One Thing Contradict Thing
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. William James
Life Worth Living Say Worth Living Since Make
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, it must not scream or curse. William James
Sad Attitude Solemn Must Religious About Something Tender Glad Any Scream Curse Which Grin Serious
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. William James
Work Character World Events Feeling Darker Perceive Only Directly Fact Individuality Catch How Making Real Done Happen Which Places Strata Founded Actually
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. William James
Man Recognize Individuals Him Selves Social Who Many
'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. William James
Life Experience Reflection Pure Gave Our Later Flux Immediate Categories Name Conceptual Material Which
In business for yourself, not by yourself. William James
Business Yourself
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! William James
Man Every Philosopher Philosophers Recognition Fact Generally Most Call Although Genuine Praise In Fact Craves
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. William James
Community Sympathy Individual Without Dies Impulse Away
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. William James
Life Find Cling Doomed While Even
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. William James
Mind Ought Background Dim We Cannot Somehow Know Doing Cannot Start
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. William James
Truth Thoughts Beneficial Guide Those Advance Occur Interaction Sensible Whether Which Us Copy
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. William James
Think Must Able Objects Does Said Accompany Which Them Breathe Kant Actually
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