So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMESSo it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
More William James Quotes
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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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 no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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