There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMESSo 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.
More William James Quotes
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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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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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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