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William James Quotes

«Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.»
«Act the part and you will become the part.»
«Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him and each man as he really is.»
«This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.»
«Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one.»
«The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.»
«Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.»
«Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism»
«A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.»
«Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.»