The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
Quote by William James
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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William James Quotes
- How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
- '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.
- Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- 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.
- Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
- If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
- 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.
- Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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