“Tell him to live by yes and no — yes to everything good, no to everything bad.”

— William James

As quoted in The Thought and Character of William James (1935) by Ralph Barton Perry, Vol. II, ch. 91
1890s

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American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842–1910

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