As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESNo living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
More William James Quotes
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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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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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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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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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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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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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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