Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMESHistory is a bath of blood.
More William James Quotes
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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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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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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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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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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