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.
WILLIAM JAMESWe hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
More William James Quotes
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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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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