The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
More William James Quotes
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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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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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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