Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMESThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
More William James Quotes
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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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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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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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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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