Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
More William James Quotes
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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