Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can alter his life by altering his thinking.
More William James Quotes
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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