It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
More William James Quotes
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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