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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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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Mind Philosophy Quiet
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
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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Ideas Men Twenties
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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