The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
More William James Quotes
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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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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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