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To spend life for something which outlasts it.

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
Life
Outlasts
Achievement
Spend
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.
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Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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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 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!
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.
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'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Habit is the great flywheel of society.
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
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If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
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