Truth is something that happens to an idea.
WILLIAM JAMESThe impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
More William James Quotes
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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