William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ↗

— William James

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

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In business for yourself, not by yourself. ↗

— William James

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ↗

— William James

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. ↗

— William James

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Man lives for science as well as bread. ↗

— William James

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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. ↗

— William James

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'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. ↗

— William James

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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. ↗

— 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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