Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
More William James Quotes
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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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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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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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