New habits can be launched.
WILLIAM JAMESAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
More William James Quotes
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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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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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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