In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMESTo know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
More William James Quotes
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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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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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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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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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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