The 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.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
More William James Quotes
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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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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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 sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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