Tag: William James
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
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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.
William James
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James
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Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James