Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
More William James Quotes
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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