The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
WILLIAM JAMESYou must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
More William James Quotes
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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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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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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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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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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