So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
More William James Quotes
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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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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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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