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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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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 not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.
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There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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