We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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