No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
More Quotes from William James:
It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.William James
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.
William James
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in it stains the ancient mass but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.
William James
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
William James
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
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