New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMESLanguage is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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