The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESA man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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