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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.
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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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