To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMESThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
More William James Quotes
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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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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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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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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