The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. ✨ William James (2013). The Varieties of Religious Experience, p.41, Courier Corporation
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. ✨ William James (1986). Essays in Psychical Res … ▶
To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a f … ▶
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ✨ William James (2010). The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, p.80, The Floating Press
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

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