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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
Discovery
Advantage
Full
Take
Lets
Encouragement

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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
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A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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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 as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.
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The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
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We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Science can tell us what exists but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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With no attempt there can be no failure with no failure no humiliation.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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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.
William James