Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
More William James Quotes
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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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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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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New habits can be launched.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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