All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESHistory is a bath of blood.
More William James Quotes
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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