Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMESThe most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
More William James Quotes
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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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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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