Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, 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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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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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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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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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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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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