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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

William James
Evil, Ruling, Prove

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

William James
Fate, Evil, Spinning
William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

William James
Evil, Worry, Add
Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

William James
Character, Fate, Evil
"The Principles of Psychology". Book by William James, 1890.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James
Evil, Healthy, Individual

Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

William James
Skulls, Evil, Healthy
William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.119, Harvard University Press

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

William James
Reality, Men, Evil
Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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