Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMESOne 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.
More William James Quotes
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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New habits can be launched.
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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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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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