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49 quotes (Page 2 of 2 pages)Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Fatigue
William James
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
Freedom
William James
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Faith
William James
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William James
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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
Spirit and Spirituality
William James
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
Self-image
William James
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Wisdom
William James
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Immortality
William James
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The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Approval
William James
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Life and Living
William James
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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Purpose
William James
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
Growth
William James
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
Worry
William James
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
Evil
William James
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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!
Self-love
William James
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
Failure
William James
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William James
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
Deception
William James
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
Achievement
William James
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
Psychiatry
William James
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
Life and Living
William James
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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.
Laughter
William James
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
Choice
William James
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
Wisdom
William James
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun