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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
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... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
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All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
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Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...
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The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.
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