Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESThe drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
More William James Quotes
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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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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The strenuous life tastes better
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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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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New habits can be launched.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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