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Modern man . . . has not ceas...

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

William James 820 quotes

Objective evidence and certit...

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

William James 820 quotes

[T]here is very little differ...

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

William James 820 quotes

The difference between object...

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.

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An experience, perceptual or ...

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

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Consciousness... does not app...

Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.

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Science, like life, feeds on ...

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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Organization and method mean ...

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

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The union of the mathematicia...

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James 820 quotes

Our life is always deeper tha...

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

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That reality is 'independent'...

That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

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Old-fashioned determinism was...

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

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Spiritual energy flows in and...

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

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In the dim background of our ...

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

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The whole drift of my educati...

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, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in.

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Woe to him whose beliefs play...

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

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All of our life is but a mass...

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James 820 quotes

We ought, all of us, to reali...

We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.

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If this life is not a real fi...

If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.

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The work that leads to a doct...

The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

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