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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
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Act the part and you will become the part.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
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Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.
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The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
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