It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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More William James Quotes
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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