Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
More William James Quotes
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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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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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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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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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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