To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMESA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
More William James Quotes
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Truth happens to an idea
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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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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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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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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