Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
More William James Quotes
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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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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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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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