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Letter "W" » William James Quotes
«Publishers are demons, there's no doubt about it.»
«Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.»
«Education is the organization of acquired habits of conduct and tendencies to behavior .»
«Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
category, co, distinct, one species, ordinate
«Let me repeat once more that a man's vision is the great fact about him.»
«Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
certified, certify, in advance, theoretically
«Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention. . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.»
«If there is anything I hate, it is collecting.»
«Man's perfection would be the fulfillment of his end; and his end would be union with his Maker.»
«We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.»
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