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" I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. "
William James
Happy
Because
Sing
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" Truth is what works. "
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Works
Truth Is
" We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. "
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Ready
Live
" If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. "
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" If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. "
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" Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. "
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Does
" Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. "
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Nothing
Clearly
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" Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. "
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Task
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" We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. "
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" The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. "
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History
" This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. "
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Worth Living
Worth
" A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. "
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Many
Who
Him
" The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. "
William James
Generation
Attitude
Discovery
" The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
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Knowing
Overlook
Wise
" There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. "
William James
Curse
Something
Serious
" No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. "
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Good
Character
Better
" Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. "
William James
Relationship
You
Conflict
" If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. "
William James
Feeling Good
Good
Feeling
" 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
Said
Breathe
Think
" In business for yourself, not by yourself. "
William James
Business
Yourself
" To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. "
William James
Admit
Radical
Nor
" An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. "
William James
Force
Revelation
Come
" 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
World
Us
Age
" There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. "
William James
Other
One Thing
Only
" Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. "
William James
Man
Thinking
Alter
" Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. "
William James
Find
You
Test
" Time itself comes in drops. "
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Itself
Drops
Time
" Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. "
William James
Heart
World
Caution
" There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. "
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Surprise
Companionship
" Belief creates the actual fact. "
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Actual
Belief
Fact