Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESIn business for yourself, not by yourself.
More William James Quotes
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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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New habits can be launched.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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