The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
More William James Quotes
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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