The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMESNew habits can be launched.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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New habits can be launched.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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