To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMESTo give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
More William James Quotes
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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New habits can be launched.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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