Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMESMan alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
More William James Quotes
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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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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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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New habits can be launched.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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