The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMESReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
More William James Quotes
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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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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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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