Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMESFor morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
More William James Quotes
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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