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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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
Philosophical
Business
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
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The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
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... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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