Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMESThe prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
More William James Quotes
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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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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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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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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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