The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMESScience, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Truth happens to an idea
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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