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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in it stains the ancient mass but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.
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If it works, it's true.
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The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
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There is a voice inside which speaks and says, This is the real me!
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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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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...
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