It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESSeek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
More William James Quotes
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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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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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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