There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
More William James Quotes
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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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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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New habits can be launched.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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