No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
More William James Quotes
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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