He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
More William James Quotes
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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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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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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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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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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