Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESPretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
More William James Quotes
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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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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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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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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