How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
WILLIAM JAMESIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
More William James Quotes
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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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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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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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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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