4 Quotes by William James about friendship


  • Author William James
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    Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

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  • Author William James
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    The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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