It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMESAt bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
More William James Quotes
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Truth happens to an idea
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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