We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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