Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
WILLIAM JAMESThe general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
More William James Quotes
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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New habits can be launched.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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