We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
WILLIAM JAMESFacts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
More William James Quotes
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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