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The belief in free-will is not...

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.

William James 820 quotes

As Charles Lamb says, there is...

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

William James 820 quotes

The thinker philosophizes as t...

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

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It is true that so far as weal...

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

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If evolution and the survival ...

If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.

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Humanism . . . is not a single...

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 820 quotes

Genius is the capacity for see...

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

William James 820 quotes

The exercise of prayer, in tho...

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 820 quotes

The instinct of ownership is f...

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

William James 820 quotes

We need only in cold blood to ...

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

William James 820 quotes

The university most worthy of ...

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 820 quotes

To leap across an abyss, one i...

To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

William James 820 quotes

Lay plans as if we were to be ...

Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.

William James 820 quotes

We are thinking beings, and we...

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

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It is art that makes life, and...

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

William James 820 quotes

Life feels like a real fight -...

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.

William James 820 quotes

A great nation is not saved by...

A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

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The path to cheerfulness is to...

The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

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'Facts' are the bounds of huma...

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

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Science as such assuredly has ...

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

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