Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
More William James Quotes
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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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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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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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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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