Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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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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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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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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New habits can be launched.
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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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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 true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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