17 Quotes by William James about Philosophical
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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