Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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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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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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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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History is a bath of blood.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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