As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
More William James Quotes
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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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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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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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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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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