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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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The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
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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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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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A thing is important if anyone think it important.
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The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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