Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
More William James Quotes
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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