So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMESThat which is most personal, is most interesting.
More William James Quotes
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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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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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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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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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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