[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMESOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
More William James Quotes
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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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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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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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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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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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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