You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMESWe hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
More William James Quotes
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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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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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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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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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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