#WilliamJames

“The man who wrote the founding masterpiece on how the mind works had to talk his own mind out of suicide first — and the philosophy he built afterward is one long argument that what you believe, and what you attend to, actually shapes what your life becomes.”

“Ideas are tools for living — an idea's meaning is the difference it makes in practice, and truth is something that happens to an idea when it works — while consciousness itself is not a chain of thoughts but a flowing, selective stream.”