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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
William James
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.
William James
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.
William James
I will act as if I do make a difference.
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.
William James
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
William James
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
William James
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
William James
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
William James
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
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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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Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.
William James
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
William James
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
William James
Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
William James
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
William James
Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
William James
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
William James
