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.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
More William James Quotes
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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 power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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