The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMESScience, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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New habits can be launched.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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