Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMESThe aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
More William James Quotes
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Truth happens to an idea
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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