Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
More William James Quotes
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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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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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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