No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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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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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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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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Time itself comes in drops.
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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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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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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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