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
WILLIAM JAMESWe want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
More William James Quotes
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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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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