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Man lives for science as well as bread.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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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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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
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But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
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Habit is the great flywheel of society.
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If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
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The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
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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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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
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