No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMESWith mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
More William James Quotes
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The 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.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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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 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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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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New habits can be launched.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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