Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMESOur faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMESYou must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMESKeep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
WILLIAM JAMESMen’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMESImpulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMESNo bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
WILLIAM JAMESProcrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMESGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESTrue ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESObjective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMESTo some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMESThe teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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