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History is a bath of blood.

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
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
William James
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Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
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If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.
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If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
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To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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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.
William James
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.
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The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...
William James