To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
More William James Quotes
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New habits can be launched.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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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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