The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMESReligion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
More William James Quotes
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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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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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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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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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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