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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
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Religions have approved themselves they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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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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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.
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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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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
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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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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.
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