It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMESAll religions begin with the cry Help.
More William James Quotes
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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