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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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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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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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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