A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
More William James Quotes
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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