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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
William James
An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.
William James
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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
William James
Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
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A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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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.
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'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
William James
I don't sing because I'm happy I'm happy because I sing.
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As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
William James
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
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