Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
WILLIAM JAMESAll natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
More William James Quotes
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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