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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
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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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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
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Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
William James
It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
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It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
William James
It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.
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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
William James
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
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We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
William James
