On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
More William James Quotes
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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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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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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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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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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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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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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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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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