Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
More William James Quotes
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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