… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMESIn business for yourself, not by yourself.
More William James Quotes
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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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 community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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