Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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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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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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