Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMESAt bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
More William James Quotes
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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New habits can be launched.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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