“The mind is at every stage a theatre of simultaneous possibilities.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“Our thought, incessantly deciding, among many things of a kind, which ones for it shall be realities, here chooses one of many possible selves or characters, and forthwith reckons it no shame to fail in any of those not adopted expressly as its own.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“Each of us literally chooses, by his ways of attending to things, what sort of a universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognise him.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology
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“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology