What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
More William James Quotes
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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