Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
More William James Quotes
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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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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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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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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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