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Effort is a measure of a Man.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
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Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
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History is a bath of blood.
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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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I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.
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It is your friends who make your world.
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Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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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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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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