Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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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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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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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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