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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
By William James
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
By William James
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
By William James
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
By William James
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
By William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
By William James
I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ
By William James
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
By William James
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil
By William James
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.
By William James
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to 'keep' by force of inertia.
By William James
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
By William James
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
By William James
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
By William James
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
By William James
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
By William James
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
By William James