What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves mos…

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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 (2008). The Letters of William James, Cosimo, Inc.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it. ✨ William James (2012). The Will to Believe and Human Immortality, p.271, Courier Corporation
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ✨ William James (1970). Essays in Pragmatism, p.170, Simon and Schuster
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. ✨ Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 4 and 5, p. 113

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! ✨ William James (2008). The Letters of William James, Cosimo, Inc.

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