Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESFear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
More William James Quotes
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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New habits can be launched.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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