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.
WILLIAM JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
More William James Quotes
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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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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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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