Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth happens to an idea
More William James Quotes
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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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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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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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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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