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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
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Psychologist
University Teacher
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.
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It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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What a teacher needs to know about psychology might almost be written on the palm of one's hand.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.
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I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
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The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
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A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
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