Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMESThe God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
More William James Quotes
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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