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Humanism... is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight (William James Quotes)
The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves (William James Quotes)
The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed (William James Quotes)
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions (William James Quotes)
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process (William James Quotes)
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again (William James Quotes)
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it (William James Quotes)
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact (William James Quotes)
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked (William James Quotes)
Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted (William James Quotes)
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it (William James Quotes)
There is but one indefectibly certain truth, and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists (William James Quotes)
Man’s chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him (William James Quotes)
The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself (William James Quotes)
Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor (William James Quotes)
Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies (William James Quotes)
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes (William James Quotes)
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements.... From time immemorial war has been... the supremely thrilling excitement (William James Quotes)
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it (William James Quotes)
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient (William James Quotes)
We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind (William James Quotes)
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results (William James Quotes)
The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man (William James Quotes)
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true (William James Quotes)
... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp (William James Quotes)
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness (William James Quotes)
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply (William James Quotes)
Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint (William James Quotes)
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy (William James Quotes)
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is (William James Quotes)