Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human 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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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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