With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMESI don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
More William James Quotes
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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