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WILLIAM JAMESIf merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
More William James Quotes
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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