Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMESKeep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
More William James Quotes
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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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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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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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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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