The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

William James

Mots clés inspirational



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

William James

Mots clés motivational happiness work action



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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James


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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

William James


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Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

William James

Mots clés philosophy pragmatism experiential



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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James


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...the faith state...is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction... [p.272]

William James


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...our moral and practical attitude....impulses, inhibitions.... how it contains and moulds us by its restrictive pressure almost as if we were fluids pent with the cavity of a jar.... It becomes our subconscious. [p. 287]

William James


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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

William James


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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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