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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

William James

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cases Matter Philosophical
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMES

Example Human Nature Proud
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe People Propaganda
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Motivational Positive
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMES

Democracy Genius People
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Men Needs
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Extremes Matter
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES

Destiny Military Spiritual

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