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William James. The most famous aphorisms

In any project, the most important factor is the belief in success. Without faith, success is impossible.
The greatest benefit that can be derived from life is to spend life on a cause that will outlive us.
Faith is a readiness to act in the interests of a cause, the positive outcome of which is not known in advance! In fact, this is the same moral category as courage.
At first, any original theory is recognized as absurd, then - true, then - self-evident and insignificant, and, finally, so important and original that former critics appropriate it for themselves.
Any doctrine goes through three stages: first it is attacked, declared absurd, then it is admitted that it is obviously true, but insignificant. Finally, its true importance is recognized, and then its opponents dispute the honor of its discovery.
Genius is just an unusual way of looking at things.
A life based on possession is less free than one based on creation or being.
The art of being wise is knowing what to ignore.
Everyone knows what attention is. This is a biased possession, carried out through mental activity, in a clear and distinct form of one of several, as it seems, simultaneously possible objects or series of thoughts. Focusing, concentration of consciousness is its essence. It means giving up some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition that has a real opposite in that confused, twilight and scattered consciousness, which in French is called distraction, and in German Zerstreutheit.
Each of us, depending on the circumstances, can be a savage or a saint. A good person is distinguished from a bad one by choice.
It would seem that the act should follow the feeling, but in reality the act and feeling go side by side, and by controlling actions that are under more direct control of the will than feelings, we get the opportunity to indirectly control feelings. Thus, the highest conscious way to cheerfulness, if we have lost it, is to pull ourselves together and make us speak and act as if cheerfulness was already found.
When it is necessary to make a choice, but you do not make it, this is also a choice.
Our lives are like islands in the ocean or trees in the forest, whose roots are intertwined in the underground depths.
Don't be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living. And your confidence will make these words true
There is no worse lie than the misunderstood truth.
There is, perhaps, not a single thinking person who, at least once in his life, has not thought about suicide.
A society degrades if it does not receive impulses from individuals; an impulse degrades if it does not receive sympathy from the whole society.
Habit is the great flywheel of society, the most accurate conservative agent. The more the little things of everyday life we can entrust to effortless habitual automatism, the more our higher powers of mind are released to the work for which they are intended.
Religion is man's response to life.
From a physiological point of view, an acquired habit is nothing else than the formation in the brain of a new path of discharge, along which certain afferent nerve currents always tend to subsequently leave.
Strictly speaking, in any country there are only two parties... the party of animal instinct... of passion... and the party of reason, logic, foresight, order... in other words, the party of strength and the party of enlightenment.
The essence of goodness is simply the satisfaction of demand.
Theories are not answers to riddles, but answers on which we can rest.
Man is the most terrible predator in the world, for only man tends to hunt his own kind.
Self-esteem equals success divided by claims.
Evolution from animal to man is determined, in essence, by the fact that over time there are fewer and fewer reasons for fear.

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