Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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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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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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