The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESFear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
More William James Quotes
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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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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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