Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
More William James Quotes
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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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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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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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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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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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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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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