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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Psychologist
University Teacher
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
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If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
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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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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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Philosophy is an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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