The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMESI don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
More William James Quotes
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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