To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMESOne 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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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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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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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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History is a bath of blood.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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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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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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