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Use Quotes by William James
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it…
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
- As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
- 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…
- So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit…
- We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
- Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
- Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences…
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of…
- The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already…
- In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
- The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
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- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
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