At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
WILLIAM JAMESLanguage is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
More William James Quotes
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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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.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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