We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
More William James Quotes
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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