Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
More William James Quotes
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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