The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
More William James Quotes
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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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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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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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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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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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