Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
WILLIAM JAMESMan alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
More William James Quotes
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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