Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
More William James Quotes
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Truth happens to an idea
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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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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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