Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMESWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
More William James Quotes
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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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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