In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
More William James Quotes
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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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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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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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.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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