Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
WILLIAM JAMESThe power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
More William James Quotes
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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