No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMESJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
More William James Quotes
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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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The strenuous life tastes better
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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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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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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