You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMESBoth thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
More William James Quotes
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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New habits can be launched.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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