Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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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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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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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 emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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