What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
More William James Quotes
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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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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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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