The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
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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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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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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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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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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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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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