If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
More William James Quotes
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Truth happens to an idea
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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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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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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