"A difference which makes no difference is..." - Quote by William James
A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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“It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.”
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
“We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.”
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“The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.”
“Truth is something that happens to an idea.”
“On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.”
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“I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.”
“A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.”
“I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.”