If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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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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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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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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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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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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