True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
More William James Quotes
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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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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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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