Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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History is a bath of blood.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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