Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMESFear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
More William James Quotes
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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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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