The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
More William James Quotes
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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New habits can be launched.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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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