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Upon Quotes by William James
- How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we…
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
- Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
- Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
- If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
- Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong…
- Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
- The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.
- Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes…
- Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment…
- It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
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