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The prevalent fear of poverty ...

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James 820 quotes

This overcoming of all the usu...

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

William James 820 quotes

I myself believe that the evid...

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

William James 820 quotes

Modern man . . . has not cease...

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

William James 820 quotes

Belief is desecrated when give...

Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James 820 quotes

Actions seems to follow feelin...

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

William James 820 quotes

Habit is thus the enormous fly...

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

William James 820 quotes

Keep the faculty of effort ali...

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James 820 quotes

(Five) thinkers since Galileo,...

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

William James 820 quotes

Action and feeling go together...

Action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action... we can directly regulate the feeling.

William James 820 quotes

Fear of life in one form or an...

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

William James 820 quotes

Man lives by habits indeed, bu...

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 820 quotes

Most men's friendships are too...

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

William James 820 quotes

With mere good intentions hell...

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James 820 quotes

Habit is the enormous flywheel...

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

William James 820 quotes

Each of us is in fact what he ...

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James 820 quotes

Science must constantly be rem...

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

William James 820 quotes

When once a decision is reache...

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

William James 820 quotes

The question of free will is i...

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

William James 820 quotes

The simplest rudiment of mysti...

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

William James 820 quotes

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