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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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Encouragement
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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With no attempt there can be no failure with no failure no humiliation.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
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My experience is what I agree to attend to.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
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The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
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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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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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