You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMESFear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
More William James Quotes
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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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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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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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.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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