Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESThe general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
More William James Quotes
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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