New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMESMen habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
More William James Quotes
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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 union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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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 power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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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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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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