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 JAMESNo one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
More William James Quotes
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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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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 lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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