Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
WILLIAM JAMESNo bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
More William James Quotes
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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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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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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