Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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