In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMESOur faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
More William James Quotes
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had 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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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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