Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESFor the moment, what we attend to is reality.
More William James Quotes
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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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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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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