If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
WILLIAM JAMESMan lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
More William James Quotes
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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