Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
WILLIAM JAMESGive your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
More William James Quotes
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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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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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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