Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
WILLIAM JAMESThe teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
More William James Quotes
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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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 is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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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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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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