There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMESReligious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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 impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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New habits can be launched.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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