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William James
Profession : Philosopher
Birth : January 11, 1842
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
William James
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William James
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
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
William James
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
William James
Man lives for science as well as bread.
William James
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 fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James
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
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
William James
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William James
'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
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William James
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James
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