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William James Quotes

American - Philosopher | January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Men Ideas Only Before Shall Lives

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Half Awake Ought Compared

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.

Live Faith Enough Result True Come

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Facts Temper Us Almost Religious

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Business God Science Retail Laws

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Faith Someone Matters Greatest Most

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Quality Price Cheap Pay Whatever

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Live Today Truth Tomorrow Ready Get

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.

Happiness Men Endure Secret Gain

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

One Thing Only Philosopher Contradict

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

World Hell Wrong Way Worse Theology

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Life Best Man Argument Know Who

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