Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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