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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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 are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed
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Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.
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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.
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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
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Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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