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Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.
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A thing is important if anyone think it important.
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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.
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Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.
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I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
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You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.
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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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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, words, words, words, must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
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