Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMESA paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
More William James Quotes
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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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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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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