The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
More William James Quotes
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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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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History is a bath of blood.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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