For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMESNo living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
More William James Quotes
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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