Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESDeepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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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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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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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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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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History is a bath of blood.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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