Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMESYou must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
More William James Quotes
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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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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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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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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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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 deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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