You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMESTo give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
More William James Quotes
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Science, 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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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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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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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