With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMESAsceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
More William James Quotes
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Truth happens to an idea
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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