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.
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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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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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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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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