If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMESFear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
More William James Quotes
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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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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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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