Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
More William James Quotes
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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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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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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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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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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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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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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