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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Aim
Philosophical
College
Education
Teach
Good
Men

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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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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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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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