All religions begin with the cry Help.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
More William James Quotes
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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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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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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