An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
More William James Quotes
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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