What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
More William James Quotes
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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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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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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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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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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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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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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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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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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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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