It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMESTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
More William James Quotes
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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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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