I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMESEffort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
More William James Quotes
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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