When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
WILLIAM JAMESNew habits can be launched.
More William James Quotes
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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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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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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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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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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