A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMESI don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
More William James Quotes
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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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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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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