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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James in
Humor
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James in
Wisdom
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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
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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
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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
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James in
Life
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James in
Life
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James in
Life
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
William James
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James
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In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James
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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
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