"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."
― William James
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"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."
― William James |
"We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh."
― William James |
"Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law."
― William James |
"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."
― William James |
"I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing."
― William James
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
― William James
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"Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner."
― William James
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
― William James
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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
― William James
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"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."
― William James |
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
― William James |
"Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear."
― William James |
"My experience is what I agree to attend to."
― William James
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"Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly."
― William James |
"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."
― William James
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"Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them."
― William James |
"None of us are ever who we were yesterday."
― William James
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"Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it."
― William James
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"Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task."
― William James
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
― William James |
"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
― William James |
"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."
― William James |
"I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly."
― William James |
"A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates."
― William James |
"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits."
― William James
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"There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it."
― William James
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"The attempt at introspective analysis... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness."
― William James
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"A stream of ideal tendency embedded in the external structure of the world."
― William James
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