To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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More William James Quotes
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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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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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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