Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESTo consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
More William James Quotes
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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