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
WILLIAM JAMESA 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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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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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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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