Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
More William James Quotes
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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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.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Truth happens to an idea
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