The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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