The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMESWith mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
More William James Quotes
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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