To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can alter his life by altering his thinking.
More William James Quotes
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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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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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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True 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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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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