An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESYou must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
More William James Quotes
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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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 chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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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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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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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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