The strenuous life tastes better
WILLIAM JAMESMen’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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History is a bath of blood.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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