Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
More William James Quotes
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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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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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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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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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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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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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