Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
More William James Quotes
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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