History is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMESProcrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
More William James Quotes
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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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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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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