What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
More William James Quotes
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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