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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
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New habits can be launched.
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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
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The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
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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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To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, words, words, words, must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
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