Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
More William James Quotes
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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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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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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