Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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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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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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