Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
WILLIAM JAMESFor the moment, what we attend to is reality.
More William James Quotes
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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