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.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
More William James Quotes
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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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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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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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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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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