With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMESWe can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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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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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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