The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
WILLIAM JAMESImpulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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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The strenuous life tastes better
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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