There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
WILLIAM JAMESThe teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
More William James Quotes
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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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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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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