Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESThe strenuous life tastes better
More William James Quotes
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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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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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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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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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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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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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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