Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
More William James Quotes
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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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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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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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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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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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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