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Page 1: Top 20 quotes from William James

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Top 20 quotes from William James

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William James

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

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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.

William James

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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

William James

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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

William James

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

William James

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

William James

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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

William James

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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

William James

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

William James

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

William James

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

William James

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

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