Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESThere’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
More William James Quotes
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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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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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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