The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESTo give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
More William James Quotes
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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History is a bath of blood.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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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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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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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.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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