It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
More William James Quotes
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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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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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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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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