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.
WILLIAM JAMESKeep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
More William James Quotes
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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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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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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