Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMESFor the moment, what we attend to is reality.
More William James Quotes
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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New habits can be launched.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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