That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMESCircumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
More William James Quotes
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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