Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
More William James Quotes
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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