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It is your friends who make your world.

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
Friends
Make
World
Meaningful

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
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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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The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.
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It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
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Belief creates the actual fact.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of mere inertia.
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This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
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... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
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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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Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
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Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.
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It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
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