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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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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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In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.
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General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common
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Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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Evil is a disease and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
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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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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
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