It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMESDemocracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
More William James Quotes
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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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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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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