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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ↗

— William James

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. ↗

— William James

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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ↗

— William James

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! ↗

— William James

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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. ↗

— William James

#cheap #pay #price #quality #sought

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. ↗

— Allison Janney

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