The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMESHow 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.
More William James Quotes
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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Time itself comes in drops.
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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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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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