Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMESTo some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
More William James Quotes
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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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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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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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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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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Truth happens to an idea
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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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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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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