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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
W. James
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Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
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Habit is the great flywheel of society.
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In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
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General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.
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The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.
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The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
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