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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. ↗

— William James

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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. ↗

— William James

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. ↗

— William James

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ↗

— William James

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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. ↗

— William James

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. ↗

— William James

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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. ↗

— William James

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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. ↗

— William James

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

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