Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
More William James Quotes
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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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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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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