Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMESA paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
More William James Quotes
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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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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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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 with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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