The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, 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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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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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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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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The strenuous life tastes better
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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