The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
More William James Quotes
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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