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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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Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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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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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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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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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.
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Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
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The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for 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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Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
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