Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William James
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.
William James
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas are not so.
William James
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