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.
WILLIAM JAMESJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
More William James Quotes
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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