All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESEverything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
More William James Quotes
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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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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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