Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
WILLIAM JAMESA new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
More William James Quotes
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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