No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
More William James Quotes
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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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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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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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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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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