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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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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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Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.
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The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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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.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
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Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
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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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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
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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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