To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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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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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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