We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMESTouch is the alpha and omega of affection.
More William James Quotes
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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