The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
More William James Quotes
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Truth happens to an idea
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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