I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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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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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 only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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