You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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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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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Truth happens to an idea
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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