Devil Quote by William James

“The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.”

William James

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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

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“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered…

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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

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Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or…

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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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It is your friends who make your world.

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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,…

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“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and…

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This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful…

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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

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