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William James Quotes

American - Philosopher | January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Nothing More Human Indecision Being

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Great People Think Thinking Many

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Heart Together Laugh Feeling Will

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Nature Power Cold Alcohol Facts

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Walking Young Will Become Plastic

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Mind Start Doing Know Cannot Ought

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Great Resources Greater Us Show Our

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.

Age Character World Thirty Never Us

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Life Surprise Way Companionship Need

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Community Sympathy Without Individual

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Work Character World Feeling Done

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Man Recognition Genuine Praise Call

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