Our beliefs are really rules for action.
WILLIAM JAMESCircumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
More William James Quotes
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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