Quotes by William James

William James

… I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

Earth

Old Time

Reincarnation

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… no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Bells

Tolls

Truth Is

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…as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

Buddhist

Karma

Principles

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…By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.

Abuse

Science

Usual

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…These healers…my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories….But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

Believe

Dark

Opportunity

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‘Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Facts

Knowledge

Science

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‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Flux

Names

Reflection

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[Pragmatism’s] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience’s demands, nothing being omitted.

Demand

Tests

Truth

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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

Grace

Order

Unseen

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[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

Paganism

Responsibility

World

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