Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESEffort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
More William James Quotes
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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