The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
More William James Quotes
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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 are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The 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.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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History is a bath of blood.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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