Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
More William James Quotes
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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 intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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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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