It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
More William James Quotes
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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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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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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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
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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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