Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMESThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
More William James Quotes
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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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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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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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 power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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