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.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
More William James Quotes
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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