With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
WILLIAM JAMESWe 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.
More William James Quotes
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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