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.
WILLIAM JAMESSeek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
More William James Quotes
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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