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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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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
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Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
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Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
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We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.
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An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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Habit is the great flywheel of society.
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
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We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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