New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMESThe intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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History is a bath of blood.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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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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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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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.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Truth happens to an idea
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