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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
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Religions have approved themselves they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.
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Science can tell us what exists but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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