There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
More William James Quotes
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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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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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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