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Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004. 127 Copy quote. Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality. William James. Reality, Perception. 113 Copy quote. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James.
William James. Truth, Lying, Philosophical. William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.31, Courier Corporation. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation. William James.
Appreciation, Attitude, Philosophy. Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude. William James. Attitude, Men. 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.
William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.115, University of Illinois Press Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will. William James. Believe, Firsts, Free Will. Diary, 30 Apr. 1870. Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will ...
William James. Life, Change, Philosophical. Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. William James. Inspirational, Life, Hate. We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James. Life, Trust, Truth.
William James. Faith, Believe, Philosophical. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field. William James.
William James. Character, Doe, Circumstances. Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. William James.
In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible. William James. Strong, Leaving, Acquisition. William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation. William James. Appreciation, Creativity, Desire. If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me. William James. Appreciation, Attitude, Philosophy.
