Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
More William James Quotes
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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