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William James Inspirational Quotes (640)

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Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
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Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
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A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
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Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
William James
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