William James Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
William James quotes and sayings page 8 (philosopher). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 103 we have.
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”
“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
“To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.”
“What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!”
“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
“Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.”
“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”
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