You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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