Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
More William James Quotes
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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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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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Truth happens to an idea
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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 can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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