Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESAs long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
More William James Quotes
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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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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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast 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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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