Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMESA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
More William James Quotes
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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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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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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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 general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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