“Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.” — William James, The Sentiment of Rationality
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“The mind is at every stage a theatre of simultaneous possibilities.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“Our thought, incessantly deciding, among many things of a kind, which ones for it shall be realities, here chooses one of many possible selves or characters, and forthwith reckons it no shame to fail in any of those not adopted expressly as its own.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“Each of us literally chooses, by his ways of attending to things, what sort of a universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.” — William James, “The Will to Believe”, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
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“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.” — William James
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.” — William James, Letter to E.L. Godkin (24 December 1895) The Letters of William James, Vol. II
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“The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.” — William James, The Letters of William James, Vol. II
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