Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESA man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
More William James Quotes
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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