When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESYou can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
More William James Quotes
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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