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Man's chief difference from t...

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.

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... A rule of thinking which ...

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

William James 820 quotes

The man who knows governments...

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

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It is only the fundamental co...

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

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The suspicion is in the air n...

The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

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But petitional prayer is only...

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.

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At bottom, the whole concern ...

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

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Any object not interesting in...

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

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You make a great, very great ...

You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.

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The intellectual life of man ...

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

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In the matter of belief, we a...

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.

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To some of us the thought of ...

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

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Man, biologically considered ...

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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Results should not be too vol...

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

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The most any one can do is to...

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

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If WE claim only reasonable p...

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

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The war-function has grasped ...

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

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The man whose acquisitions st...

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

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When you have broken the real...

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

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A remarkable parallel, which ...

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

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