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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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The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
William James
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A thing is important if anyone think it important.
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Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.
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Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
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The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
William James
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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
William James
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
William James
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
William James
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
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Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
William James
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of mere inertia.
William James
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I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.
William James
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There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
William James
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Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
William James
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
William James
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James
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Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.
William James
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James