There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
More William James Quotes
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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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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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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