The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
WILLIAM JAMESThe lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
More William James Quotes
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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