Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMESEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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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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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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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 a quality, act as if you already had it.
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