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.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
More William James Quotes
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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