The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
More William James Quotes
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Truth happens to an idea
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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 all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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