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noosphe-re · 4 months

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The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing, it would say; I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone."

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

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funeral · 7 days

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William James, Psychology: The Briefer Course

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perfectfeelings · 4 months

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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quotefeeling · 4 months

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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aspiritualwarriors · 1 year

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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

— William James

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nousrose · 1 month

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This healthy minded life is a half life, impoverished for its willful ignorance of the other side, the dark and decaying side that always wins out in the end. Those who go through life thinking that the power of positive thinking is all that is needed to get by are like denizens of an imaginary land. For them, the sun always shines, the weather is fine, life is abundance. They don't realize that summer doesn't last forever, that the summer hut they've built for themselves will not stand the first frosty winds of autumn, never mind the winter. Such are the acolytes of perpetual joy. They embrace a philosophy that can only sustain itself in the vigor and energy of youth. When that goes, like the summer, they find themselves philosophically and spiritually ill-equipped to deal with the new conditions.

The Complete Works of William James

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melaclintbartoncorner · 25 days

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resqectable · 7 months

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

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quotessentially · 1 month

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From William James’s The Principles of Psychology

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huzursuzlugun-blogu · 2 months

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Birçok insan düşündüğünü sanır,

aslında yaptıkları sadece önyargılarını yeniden düzenlemektir.

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noosphe-re · 10 months

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It is that 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. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question,—for they are so discontinuous with ordinary consciousness. Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map. At any rate, they forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality.

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

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funeral · 11 months

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Those who go through life thinking that the power of positive thinking is all that is needed to get by are like denizens of an imaginary land. For them, the sun always shines, the weather is fine, life is abundance. They don’t realize that summer doesn’t last forever, that the summer hut they’ve built for themselves will not stand the first frosty winds of autumn, never mind the winter. Such are the acolytes of perpetual joy. They embrace a philosophy that can only sustain itself in the vigor and energy of youth. When that goes, like the summer, they find themselves philosophically and spiritually ill-equipped to deal with the new conditions.

William James

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key-cat · 1 year

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