The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
WILLIAM JAMESThe true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
More William James Quotes
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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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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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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