For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
More William James Quotes
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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