A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
More William James Quotes
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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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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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