The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
WILLIAM JAMESThe lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
More William James Quotes
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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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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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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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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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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