In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMESThe true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
More William James Quotes
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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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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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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