William James Quotes
Quotes
Intelligence“It is as if the opposites of the world, whose contradictoriness and conflict make all our difficulties and troubles, were melted into unity.”
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Intelligence“Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.”
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Intelligence“Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.”
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Intelligence“ All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience. ”
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Intelligence“ Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. ”
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Intelligence“ I have to forge every sentence in the teeth of irreducible and stubborn facts. ”
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Intelligence“ The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action. ”
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Intelligence“ It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ”
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Intelligence“ Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. ”
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Intelligence“ The whole universe of concrete objects, as we know them, swims in a wider and higher universe of abstract ideas, that lend it its significance. ”
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Intelligence“ Mystical states cannot be sustained for long. Except in rare instances, half an hour, or at most an hour or two, seems to be the limit beyond which they fade into the light of common day. ”
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Intelligence“ Every perception is an acquired perception. ”
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Intelligence“ All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. ”
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Intelligence“ The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. ”
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Intelligence“ The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ”
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Intelligence“ Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. ”
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