In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMESFacts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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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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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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