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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.
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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries
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The war-function has grasped us so far but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings fame is a breath love is a cheat youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Habit is the great flywheel of society.
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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
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