One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
More William James Quotes
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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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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