The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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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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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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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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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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