Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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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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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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