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
WILLIAM JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
More William James Quotes
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Truth happens to an idea
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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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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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