The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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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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