Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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More William James Quotes
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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