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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.


William James

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WILLIAM JAMES No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
WILLIAM JAMES The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
WILLIAM JAMES Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
WILLIAM JAMES 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the mater...
WILLIAM JAMES