The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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