Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMESIt is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
More William James Quotes
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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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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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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