Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
More William James Quotes
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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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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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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