It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
WILLIAM JAMES[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
More William James Quotes
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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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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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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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