Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
WILLIAM JAMESA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
More William James Quotes
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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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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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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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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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