As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
More William James Quotes
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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