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Given Quotes by William James
- Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
- Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with…
- Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
- 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…
- Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong…
- We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should…
- It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off…
- Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly…
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