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There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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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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...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.
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Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.
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Great indeed is Fear but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
William James
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
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