It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMESBelieve that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
More William James Quotes
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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New habits can be launched.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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History is a bath of blood.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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