The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease. - William James
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. - William James
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. - William James
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other. - William James
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. - William James
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. - William James
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all. - William James
We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. - William James
We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold. - William James
Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness. - William James
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries? - William James
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. - William James
Everything we have in the modern world is the result of desire. Indeed, desire is the motivating force of life itself. - Claude M. Bristol
It is the image created in his mind that gives reality to the world outside of him. - Claude M. Bristol
Men and women remain in minor clerical positions all of their lives because they never display initiative in their work, never attempt to find new ways of doing their work, and never suggest improvements. - Claude M. Bristol
No one ever defeated a resolute will. Even death stands still before such a will. - Claude M. Bristol
The more interest you take in your work, naturally the more attention you give it, and the greater are the results. - Claude M. Bristol
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