If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
WILLIAM JAMESThe union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
More William James Quotes
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Truth happens to an idea
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New habits can be launched.
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