Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESI myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
More William James Quotes
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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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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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The 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.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Truth happens to an idea
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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