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If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
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There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
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Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.
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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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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
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An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.
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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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I will act as if I do make a difference.
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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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