At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
WILLIAM JAMESWe are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
More William James Quotes
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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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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