[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMESThe mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
More William James Quotes
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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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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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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History is a bath of blood.
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