It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
More William James Quotes
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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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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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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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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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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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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