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There is a voice inside which speaks and says, This is the real me!

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Inside
Says
Voice
Speak
Real
Speaks

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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
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Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
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The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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